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Using the Mississippi River to rebuild Louisiana's coast
2013-05-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times-Picayune: Coastal experts have been telling us since Katrina that our marshes are getting perilously close to a tipping point. If we don't act very quickly, we may be too late. We lacked a plan, and we lacked money. Now we have both. As sources of funding from the BP oil disaster become available, the likelihood that big river sediment diversions -- which are proven strategies to build land -- will actually be done has some folks up in arms. Opponents of the plan, Louisiana's 2012 Comprehensive Master Plan...
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