Mark Schleifstein
Environment Reporter at The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
Environment Reporter at The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Environment/Hurricane/Levee reporter for The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate; Co-author, Path of Destruction; Member, SEJ, IRE
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Jan 7, 2025 |
nola.com | Mark Schleifstein
An update of Louisiana's strategy to help reduce the low-oxygen “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is being criticized as inadequate because of its reliance on a proposed project now in doubt and for not spelling out a plan to convince other polluting states to address the problem. The draft is a five-year update on reducing nutrient water pollution from fertilizer, sewage and industrial sources, which help form the large low-oxygen zone in the Gulf every summer.
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Dec 9, 2024 |
savingseafood.org | Mark Schleifstein
December 9, 2024 — Federal officials have proposed spending $210 million for 10 projects aimed at restoring fisheries, sea turtles and invertebrate species — including shrimp, crabs, reef coral and shellfish — that were damaged during the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in open water areas of the Gulf of Mexico. The money comes from an $8.8 billion settlement that BP entered into with the federal government and Gulf Coast states in 2016 to try to remediate some of the extensive damage.
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Dec 8, 2024 |
nola.com | Mark Schleifstein
Federal officials have proposed spending $210 million for 10 projects aimed at restoring fisheries, sea turtles and invertebrate species — including shrimp, crabs, reef coral and shellfish — that were damaged during the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in open water areas of the Gulf of Mexico. The money comes from an $8.8 billion settlement that BP entered into with the federal government and Gulf Coast states in 2016 to try to remediate some of the extensive damage.
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Nov 29, 2024 |
nola.com | Mark Schleifstein
Jay Lapeyre, Jr., the New Orleans civic and business leader who as nominating committee chairperson single-handedly reshaped the region's two biggest levee authority boards following post-Hurricane Katrina reforms aimed at limiting political influence, is stepping down from his position.
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Nov 18, 2024 |
nola.com | Mark Schleifstein
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