Louisiana coastline erosion News

Louisiana’s Eroding Coast a $100B Nightmare for Big Oil

From 5,000 feet up, it’s difficult to make out where Louisiana’s coastline used to be. But follow the skeletal remains of decades-old oil canals, and you get an idea. Once, these lanes sliced through thick marshland, clearing a path for …

Louisiana Oral History Project Captures Impact of Eroding Coastline

Jed Joseph Pitre was born in Thibodaux, La., in 1961 and remembers when the beach at Grand Isle seemed wider and thriving coastal marshes were used for family fishing. But the beach is now narrower and the coastal marshes are …