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Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper Featured In The Chronicle Of Philanthropy

A full page-and-a-half photo of the Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper crew riding off into the sunset was featured in The Chronicle Of Philanthropy. A full page-and-a-half photo of the Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper crew riding off into the sunset was featured in The Chronicle Of Philanthropy.…
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Waterkeeper’s Air War

Great article from the TecheToday.com profiling the work of Atchafalaya Basinkeeper Dean Wilson, Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper Paul Orr and SouthWings. Great article by Ken Grissom Special Thanks to SouthWings.org and volunteer pilot David Mauritson. From TechToday.com, 8/29/13: With nearly a million acres to monitor with one set of eyes, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper Dean Wilson and his Waterkeeper Alliance colleague Paul Orr, Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper, with the task of watching over that major industrial corridor, relie on the kindness of another non-profit formed to give wings to a wide variety of persons and organizations interested in the health of the ecosystems of the Southeast from Louisiana to West Virginia.…
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Judge Denies Taylor Energy Motion to Dismiss Clean Water Act Violations Suit

New Orleans, LA – Yesterday, the judge in a lawsuit (Apalachicola Riverkeeper v. Taylor Energy Co. LLC) brought against Taylor Energy for a leaking oil well issued an order denying most of Taylor Energy’s Motion to Dismiss and denied Taylor’s Motion to Stay the lawsuit.…
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FOIA Lawsuit Filed After US Coast Guard Denies Information on Ongoing Taylor Energy Oil Leak in the Gulf

Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper, Waterkeeper Alliance, and Gulf Waterkeepers File FOIA Lawsuit After US Coast Guard Denies Information on Ongoing Taylor Energy Oil Leak in the Gulf. FOIA Lawsuit Comes 1 Year After Waterkeeper Organizations Sue Taylor Energy Over Clean Water Act Violations.…
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Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper Featured In National TV Spot For Waterkeeper Alliance!

Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper, LEAN’s project focusing on environmental concerns in the Mississippi River Basin in Louisiana, has a featured appearance in Waterkeeper Allinace’s 30 second public service announcement which was played nationally on CBS during Waterkeeper’s Deer Valley Skifest TV Special!…
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Waterkeeper Organizations File Suit to Plug Taylor Energy’s Ongoing 7 Year Gulf Oil Spill

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA — Louisiana Environmental Action Network and its Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper program along with Waterkeeper Alliance and several Gulf Coast Waterkeeper organizations filed suit in Federal Court today, February 2, 2012, against Taylor Energy Co., LLC under the citizen suit provisions of the Clean Water Act and Resource Conservation Recovery Act, for ongoing violations stemming from an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that has continued to flow for seven years.…
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LEAN, LMRK Put Chronic Gulf Oil Polluter – Taylor Energy – On Notice

LEAN, LMRK, Waterkeeper Alliance & Gulf Coast Waterkeepers Serve Notice of Intent to Sue Under Federal Environmental Laws, Targeting Chronic Oil Spill from the “Taylor Wells” in the Gulf of Mexico LEAN, LMRK, Waterkeeper Alliance & Gulf Coast Waterkeepers Serve Notice of Intent to Sue Under Federal Environmental Laws, Targeting Chronic Oil Spill from the “Taylor Wells” in the Gulf of Mexico New Orleans, LA- Louisiana Environmental Action Network and Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper along with Waterkeeper Alliance and several Gulf Coast Waterkeeper organizations announced today that Taylor Energy Co.…
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Gulf Monitoring Consortium, LMRK Report 1 Breton Sound

Leaking Well Follow Up for Gulf Monitoring Consortium Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper Patrol of Breton Sound June 17, 2011 The delta of the Mississippi River is like no other place on earth. Its vast and ever changing landscape is a beautiful maze that can feel a million miles from civilization.…
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