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Louisiana's climate plan, the only one in the Deep South, gets passed. What's next?

Feb 4, 2022

While modeling suggests the plan will allow Louisiana to achieve its net-zero goal, simply having a plan isn’t enough. “The modeling, it's not a defin...

Louisiana Approves First Climate Action Plan in the Gulf South

Jan 31, 2022

Gov. John Bel Edwards’ Climate Initiatives Task Force today unanimously approved the state’s first ever Climate Action Plan. Louisiana’s Plan contains...

Aptim moving from Shaw's former Essen Lane building to Water Campus downtown

Jan 21, 2022

Aptim, a global engineering and environmental consulting firm, is relocating its headquarters from the former Shaw Group building on Essen Lane to the...

Our Love Hate Relationship With Water

Jan 12, 2022

Two thirds of the planet is covered in water. In south Louisiana, it may often seem like a lot more than that! We are surrounded by lakes and bayous. ...

Gov. John Bel Edwards' 'net zero' plan calls for dramatically reshaping Louisiana economy

Jan 11, 2022

Louisiana’s nearly final plan for reducing carbon emissions to “net zero” by 2050 focuses on “three pillars” - a dramatic shift to electricity from re...

Public Comment Sought On Parish's Plans for Restore Act Funds

Dec 27, 2021

Morgan City Coastal Resilience Laboratory. The parish government would be partners with the Water Institute of the Gulf in “piloting projects for impl...

As Charleston seawall plan inches forward, many ask: Are there greener options?

Dec 19, 2021

A study by the Corps and the Water Institute of the Gulf is also ongoing right now on how to account for the natural improvements in the cost ratio. E...

Louisiana parishes face some of highest flood risk of any U.S. counties, new study says

Oct 18, 2021

It will come as no surprise to anyone who’s been caught in a sudden downpour in New Orleans, Lake Charles or many points between. A new analysis layin...

USM Prof, Water Institute Work to Restore Chandeleur Islands

Sep 18, 2021

A Louisiana-based research organization and a professor at the University of Southern Mississippi are joining forces in a project to examine how to ma...

Understanding the True Flood Risks of Tropical Cyclones

Sep 13, 2021

New research led by IIHR Director Gabriele Villarini, working in cooperation with partners at The Water Institute of the Gulf, Louisiana State Univers...

How New Orleans’ infrastructure held up to Hurricane Ida

Sep 3, 2021

Today, climate-focused infrastructure projects in the US tend to be narrowly defined and managed by one or two agencies. State and local agencies plan...

U.S. Civil Engineers Bent the Rules to Give New Orleans Extra Protection from Hurricanes. Those Adjustments Might Have Saved the City During Ida

Sep 2, 2021

Hugh Roberts, the COO of The Water Institute of the Gulf, a non-profit research organization, worked with the Army Corps on post-Katrina flood protect...