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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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Bayou Corne Sinkhole Monitoring Flight, 5/6/13

A joint flight, provided by SouthWings, for LEAN, Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper and Atchafalaya Basinkeeper produced new pictures of the still growing sinkhole in the Bayou Corne area. A joint flight, provided by SouthWings, for LEAN, Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper and Atchafalaya Basinkeeper produced new pictures of the still growing sinkhole in the Bayou Corne area.…
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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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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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The wetlands here look typical, with nothing unnatural about the appearance of the water or the browning of the mid winter marsh grass. But with minimal effort it is easy to shatter the sense of normalcy of both of these sights.…
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Food Drive for the Fishermen

The Louisiana Environmental Action Network and the Lower Mississippi RIVERKEEPER hold the family fishermen of Louisiana in the highest regard. They achieve in life what many strive for. Self sufficiency, independence, harmony with nature all while putting food on the familiy table.…
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Lake Borgne Seafood Sampling Trip

Once again the Lower Mississippi RIVERKEEPER (Paul Orr) and his crew, Operations Coordinator – Michael Orr and Photographer – Jeffrey Dubinsky set out for another day of collecting seafood in the gulf. Today’s haul included shrimp, blue crab, menhaden (small fish) and oysters.…
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Natural, Man Made and Technology Based Disasters in the Mississippi River System in Louisiana – 2008

The Mississippi River transports 41% of the drainage from the 48 contiguous states through the state of Louisiana. Thirty percent of the Mississippi River flow is diverted to the Atchafalaya River through the Old river Control Complex. October 2008 by, Wilma Subra Technical Advisor to LEAN Subra Company New Iberia, LA Paul Orr Communications Director Louisiana Environmental Action Network Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper   The Mississippi River transports 41% of the drainage from the 48 contiguous states through the state of Louisiana.…
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