A new EPA proposal could leave nearly 4 million acres of Louisiana wetlands without federal protection. Here’s what the rule would change — and where the impacts could fall.

“The loss of wetlands didn’t cause Katrina, but it stripped away the natural buffer that should have slowed the surge.” The lessons that came out of Hurricane Katrina are manifold. The storm exposed ...

A pillar of the state’s coastal restoration plan is dead. Its backers say it would have offered the most effective, natural storm protection. PLAQUEMINES PARISH, Louisiana — Twenty years after ...

New Orleans — Louisiana's coast is under threat as a quarter of the state's wetlands, an area about the size of Delaware, have disappeared in the last 100 years, according to the U.S. Geological ...

MARRERO, LA, UNITED STATES, December 3, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Louisiana’s wetlands play a vital role in protecting coastal communities from flooding, storm ...

Nearly 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, also called MR-GO, still exists.Experts said that it ate away at wetlands, and many believe it made the 2005 storm hit our ...

A $3 billion project in Louisiana to add coastal wetlands for storm protection has been canceled by state officials, and there are few alternatives to halt the ongoing land loss. Louisiana has a ...

The Environmental Protection Agency wants to take away federal protections for millions of acres of wetlands in Louisiana and the rest of the country, allowing them to be polluted or developed without ...