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Another Round in the Fight for Clean Water: Court decision leaves wetlands vulnerable to development

 |  Feb 1, 2011

Last week another sideways step was taken in the long struggle to clarify which waters receive Clean Water Act protections in light of recent confusing and controversial Supreme Court decisions.  … Read more

Louisiana Uses Discarded Christmas Trees to Fight Wetland Loss

 |  Jan 13, 2011

“When you deploy these things, they create a sediment trap and really help the shorelines with erosion protection.” Read more

Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) Ecosystem Restoration Plan Moves Forward

 |  Jan 4, 2011

Amanda Moore, Coastal Louisiana Organizer for the National Wildlife Federation, co-authored this post. After more than a year of tug-of-war between the state of Louisiana and the Army Corps of … Read more

A New Year’s Resolution: Protecting the Nation’s Waters for Wildlife

 |  Dec 17, 2010

In this season of New Year’s resolutions, we call upon the Obama Administration to resolve  to fix the broken Clean Water Act by restoring protection to the Nation’s wetlands, lakes, … Read more

[VIDEO] MR-GO Closure and Wetland Restoration a Potential Model for Other Manmade Channels

 |  Nov 18, 2010

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWrAl0GAFc[/youtube]Completed in 1965 as a shortcut between the Port of New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MR-GO) has been identified as one of the biggest … Read more

After Five Years and Legal Wrangling, Agency Finally Protects South Carolina Wetland

 |  Nov 12, 2010

On November 1, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reasserted basic federal Clean Water Act protections for a 31-acre coastal wetland in Horry County, South Carolina, near Murrells Inlet. That’s the good news. Read more

We’re Not As Clean As We Think We Are: The Case For Protecting All Waters

,  |  Oct 15, 2010

The results of a report published in Nature magazine earlier this month confirms what many of us already know: our waters are in rough shape.  According to the report, 80% … Read more

NWF Flyover Shows Acre After Acre of Oiled Wetlands

,  |  May 28, 2010

NWF staffers investigate BP’s claim that only 30 acres of Louisiana wetlands have been coated in oil.
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News from Coastal Louisiana

 |  May 27, 2010

By Larry J. Schweiger My colleague Senior Wildlife Biologist Doug Inkley at National Wildlife Federation and I have spent the past two days in Louisiana.  Doug shares some information on … Read more

Breaking: Gulf Coast Oil Spill Now Projected to Make Landfall Tonight

 |  Apr 29, 2010

The oil spill forecast is now looking like some of the worst-case scenarios we’ve been hearing. Read more