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enviro news

Here is a selection of environment-related news stories about New Orleans and surrounding area. Please visit NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune and The New Orleans Advocate for much more. Read conference chair/Times-Picayune environment reporter Mark Schleifstein's welcome letter here.

• "Army Corps notifies 565,000 Louisiana residents that their Katrina, Rita claims are denied," NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, August 6, 2014, by Mark Schleifstein.
• "Gulf's low-oxygen 'dead zone' covers 5,052 square miles along Louisiana's coast," NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, August 4, 2014, by Mark Schleifstein.
• "EPA's proposed ozone rules could choke Louisiana industry, business group says," NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, July 31, 2014, by Jennifer Larino.
• "Instead of DEQ fines, plant sees tax breaks after explosion," The (Lafayette) Daily Advertiser, July 28, 2014, by Claire Taylor.
• "Louisiana agriculture commissioner talking to federal officials about preservation of farmland," The Associated Press, July 28, 2014.
• "Agencies: 'Fracking' site could affect Louisiana's wetlands," The (Alexandria) Town Talk, July 26, 2014, by Monica Hernandez.
• "'Dead zone' the size of Connecticut expected along Louisiana coast, scientists say," NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, June 24, 2014, by Mark Schleifstein.
• "Fishing for lionfish off Louisiana's coast: GW Fins chef Tenney Flynn and others take aim at an invasive species," NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, June 24, 2014, by Susan Langenhennig.
• "Oil from BP spill slowing one of ocean's fastest fish: scientists ," Reuters, June 23, 2014, by Zachary Fagenson.
• "U.S. consent given for Cameron LNG export terminal," UPI.com, June 20, 2014, by Daniel J. Graeber.
• "Louisiana waterways among most polluted in nation, report says," NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, June 19, 2014, by Jennifer Larino.
• "Scores fall ill near Louisiana gas facility," Al Jazeera America, June 19, 2014, by Peter Moskowitz.
• "Green water management projects green-lighted across New Orleans," NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, June 18, 2014, by Richard Rainey.
• "St. Bernard gets oyster reef to help protect shoreline," The (Baton Rouge) Advocate, June 3, 2014, by Amy Wold.
• Op-doc: "Vanishing Island," New York Times, June 2, 2014, by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.
• "Thick Formosan termite swarm on Saturday in New Orleans," The New Orleans Advocate, May 31, 2014, by Mark Waller.
• "Louisiana House votes to kill levee board lawsuit," The New Orleans Advocate, May 30, 2014, by Mark Ballard.
• "New Orleans area hurricane levee system: Mississippi River to Lake Cataouatche levee," NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, May 29, 2014, by Mark Schleifstein.
• "New Orleans area hurricane levee system: West Closure Complex," NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, May 29, 2014, by Dan Swenson.
• "New Orleans’ flood protection system: Stronger than ever, weaker than it was supposed to be," The Lens, May 15, 2014, by Bob Marshall.
• "Telltale Rainbow Sheens Show Thousands of Spills Across the Gulf," NPR/WWNO New Orleans, April 19, 2014, by Bob Marshall.
• "Louisiana $50 billion coastal restoration plan would inject billions more into economy every year, study finds," NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, March 27, 2014, by Katherine Sayre.
• "BP oil spill linked to heart defects in tuna and amberjack, new study says," NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, March 24, 2014, by Mark Schleifstein.
• "Louisiana's coastal insects still dying from BP oil spill, researcher says," NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, March 19, 2014, by Mark Schleifstein.
• "Environmental groups file lawsuit against coal export facility in Plaquemines Parish," NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, March 18, 2014, by Benjamin Alexander-Bloch.
• "Louisiana airport works to support auto, petrochemical," Air Cargo World, March 18, 2014, by Adina Solomon.
• "Louisiana officials explore new way to bait, kill wild hogs," Associated Press, March 17, 2014.
• "Louisiana Sinkhole Appears to be Stabilizing," Associated Press, March 13, 2014.
• "EPA lifts ban barring BP from federal government contracts," NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, March 13, 2014, by Jennifer Larino.
• "Tracking spending of BP spill money, restoration projects, green building should be focus of 2014 stories, readers say," February 7, 2014, by NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.