Coastal Restoration

The project will add more acreage to Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The project is set to be completed later this year.

The money will fund Louisiana's bounty program to help quell the nutria population and protect the state's wetlands.

Many Louisiana restaurants are taking discarded oyster shells and recycling them into a brighter future for Louisiana's fragile coastline.

Over 8,000 Christmas trees were dropped this week into Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge.

The Louisiana Legislature recently passed two bills that lift a 14-year-old moratorium on new leases for oyster farmers.

Gov. John Bel Edwards is urging oil company executives to settle lawsuits that allege coastline damage.

By doing this work, Vermilion Parish will have better protection from storms in the future.

The discarded oyster shells will be used to create more spawning grounds near the Louisiana coastline.

Sen. David Vitter was at the bill's signing and says this legislation authorizes hurricane flood protection for Terrebonne and Lafourche Parish.

The first meeting of a panel looking into river diversion proposals for coastal restoration is scheduled for Wednesday in Baton Rouge.

The shutdown was financially and politically damaging to the nation.

Congressman Jeff Landry takes some time to join Jeremy Lawrence on your "Afternoon Drive Home" to talk about bipartisan legislation authored by him and Representative Cedric Richmond that will bring Louisiana approximately $2 billion more in coastal restoration and hurricane protection funding...

A new blueprint for saving coastal Louisiana from sea level rise, hurricanes and erosion will be unveiled Thursday.

Oil giant Shell will donate a million dollars to help fund coastal restoration efforts in southeast Louisiana.

A coastal restoration bill cleares one hurdle.

BP has announced it will make an advanced payment of one-billion dollars towards restoration projects on the Gulf coast.

The Post-Katrina action group Women Of The Storm take their "FEMA tarp" blue umbrellas to Capitol Hill in Washington DC today.