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Losing Ground: How a Model of the Mississippi River Could Reshape the Future of Louisiana
Mar 11, 2022That perspective can be an invaluable tool, especially for out-of-state visitors. “The really cool thing about the model when you see it is that coast...
Locations For Intermodal Facilities: Connecting The Dots
Feb 23, 2022The evolution and innovation continue. In 2021, a forward-thinking partnership between the U.S. Department of Commerce, the State of Louisiana and the...
Water in the Extreme with Brenda Burman and Justin Ehrenwerth
Feb 17, 2022While drought and sea level rise stand in contrast to one another, humancaused climate change is the primary driver of both conditions. What dothey ha...
Capital Region not immune to threat from rising seas
Feb 16, 2022While rising seas obviously create serious issues for coastal Louisiana, the Capital Region also should be wary, says Alyssa Dausman, senior vice pres...
Keeping Louisiana’s head above water
Feb 11, 2022While the gulf coast has blessed Louisianans with ample resources to develop robust seafood, shrimping, and shipping industries, it also comes with so...
Louisiana's climate plan, the only one in the Deep South, gets passed. What's next?
Feb 4, 2022While 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, 2022Gov. 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, 2022Aptim, 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, 2022Two 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, 2022Louisiana’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, 2021Morgan 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, 2021A 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...