America's Wetland Foundation

Restoring Louisiana coast a national priority, report says

By: Mark Schleifstein, Times-Picayune

Louisiana and the nation can't wait 50 years to restore economically and environmentally important coastal wetlands, a task that is likely to cost $50 billion or more, says a new report released Monday by a team of state and national environmental and social scientists and engineers. And the rest of the nation should shoulder part of the cost, the report says.

Entergy Donates $200,000 to America's Wetland Foundation

By: Business Review USA

America's Wetland Foundation has received a $200,000 grant from Entergy Corporation to help the group build public support for policies that protect the Gulf Coast region from a changing environment.

Hundreds of Leaders Across the State Meet to Discuss Coastal Restoration

By: Jenise Fernandez, KATC

Hundreds of leaders from across the state met at Avery Island to discuss ways to restore Louisiana's wetlands. St. Mary Parish president Paul Naquin is worried about the future of his parish.

Tabasco CEO to bring attention to Louisiana's wetlands

By: NBC33TV

The campaign to save Louisiana's wetlands is getting worldwide attention. The Chairman and CEO of the McIlhenny Company, Paul McIlhenny, said both the America's Wetlands logo and information on how to save the wetlands will be printed on bottles of Tabasco Hot Sauce.

Tabasco Joins Wetlands Preservation Efforts

By: KLFY TV

abasco wants to save our wetlands and Wednesday CEO Paul McIlhenny outlined his company's plans at a press conference in Avery Island. The Gulf Coast could suffer more than 350 billion dollars in economic losses over the next 20 years and that has the CEO and Chairman of Tabasco speaking out and helping out.

Tabasco Joins Forces with America's Wetland Foundation to Fight Coastal Erosion

By: Eileen Fleming, WWNO

The makers of Tabasco hot sauce are putting a message on their boxes to stir interest and possibly donations for helping the America’s Wetland Foundation preserve the coast. Paul McIlhenny runs the company on Avery Island in marshland south of New Iberia. The company has spent millions building levees around it land and factory for protection against stronger storms with higher surges.

Big River Works: Building Cooperation to Sustain the Mississippi River Systems Webinar

By: NCSL

Working with states that are home to rivers and tributaries that flow into the Mississippi River — Missouri, Arkansas, Red, Illinois, Ohio and outflow rivers – a new effort is underway to connect policymakers and engage the public in a discussion about the health of those rivers and their flow into America’s Energy Coast. Learn about the science in place and how you can participate in planned events and contribute to the process.

Putting a priority on Louisiana's coast: An editorial

By: Times-Picayune

Eighty-six percent of the 801 Louisianians surveyed by Southern Media & Opinion Research said they support a legislative vote for the plan. An even higher number of respondents -- 91 percent -- said the coast and wetlands are very important to Louisiana.

86% of Louisiana Voters Support Adoption of 2012 Coastal Master Plan

By: Wall Street Journal

Eighty-six percent of Louisiana voters say they want their legislators to approve the state's 2012 Coastal Master Plan, according to a new poll released today. The plan lays out a 50-year vision for protecting and restoring the coast, including increased hurricane risk reduction for coastal communities and reconnecting the Mississippi River with disappearing coastal wetlands. Overwhelming majorities of the voters surveyed in the poll believe the state's coastal areas and wetlands are important to the state's future and express optimism that the coast can be restored, despite decades of decline.

Resolve to pass the Restore Act: An editorial

By: Editorial Staff, Times-Picayune

Congress passed a 90-day extension of the federal highway program Thursday, but that stopgap measure did not include the Restore Act, which would send 80 percent of Clean Water Act fines from the BP oil spill to Gulf Coast states. The extension will ensure that financing for highway projects, which would have run out Saturday, will continue for 90 more days.

Building a natural alliance

By: Daily Comet

It might not be a partnership that springs naturally to mind, but the joining together of business and environmental interests makes a lot of sense in an area where they are so intertwined.

Wetlands group, chamber vow to partner for coastal restoration

By: Cara Bayles, Houma Today

Advocates speaking at the Houma-Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce’s monthly banquet Tuesday called for business and environmental interests to join forces and fight coastal erosion.

Adopt Louisiana's coastal restoration blueprint: An editorial

By: Editorial Staff, Times-Picayune

The state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority spent nearly three months listening to public input on its coastal master plan and making changes before voting unanimously this week to adopt it. Now the 50-year, $50 billion plan, which addresses both hurricane protection and coastal restoration, heads to the state Legislature, and lawmakers should adopt this important road map for our future.

Louisiana and other Gulf states need Congress to pass the Restore the Gulf Act: An editorial

By: Editorial Staff, Times-Picayune

Legislation to dedicate 80 percent of BP oil spill fines to the Gulf Coast states was on an encouraging upswing earlier this month, when the Senate adopted a transportation bill that included what's known as the Restore Act. But the momentum gained with the Senate vote -- and earlier House action to include Restore Act provisions in its version of the transportation bill -- has now slowed.

Preparing the Coast for the Next Disaster

By: Debbie Williams, WKRG TV

t's easy to see on a day like today the potential for damage along the Gulf of Mexico. Wind,flooding and storm surge are always a threat when the weather turns bad according to Valsin Marmillion, director of America's Wetland Foundation. "The sea level is rising. The land is subsiding and we're having a real problem with our infrastructure keeping it alive and viable for the next 30 years."