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US coals new focus on exporting leaves a cloud of dust over Louisiana

2014-01-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Al Jazeera: When Warren Lawrence retired, he settled on Myrtle Grove, a small community of brightly colored houses sitting on stilts, 40 miles south of New Orleans, because its surrounded by water. The Mississippi River is on one side of Route 23, the main road, and the bayou is on the other. Lawrences boats are tied up out back, and he takes his small dogs on a ride through the swampland nearly every day. He loves his way of life, he said. Except for the dusting. On a clear, windy day, from the porch...

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Louisiana forests being sacrificed to fuel Europe's biomass boom

2014-01-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Al Jazeera: The smell of freshly cut wood wafting from a dirt lot along an industrial stretch of road near the state capital might not conjure up an image of green energy, but some say this is the future of sustainability. The smell comes from two white plastic domes rising high along the Mississippi River. Stored inside those domes are millions of wood pellets, which started as trees in the surrounding 50- to 75-mile area, and were converted to easily shippable and burnable material at mammoth factories...

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a Duck Dynastya is only the latest success story for a Louisiana town

2014-01-04 08:02:03| Beverages - Topix.net

Because my wife and I shared our high school and college days in Monroe, just across the magnificent Ouachita River, Bud apparently thought I should set the record straight.

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