“A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS” Acclaimed Times Picayune Reporter Shares Coalition’s “Tipping Points” Studies INTRODUCTION: The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate and Nola.com published a new article this week by Mike Smith, their acclaimed…
MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT:Allison BuchananThe Focus Groupabuchanan@focusgroupms.comCell: (228) 596-3192 Mississippi Sound Coalition Announces New Science-Based Recommendations for Better Management of the Bonnet Carré Spillway For assets and documents related to…
As part of each year’s Mississippi River Commission inspection trip and hearings process, the Mississippi Sound Coalition’s Lead Environmental Counsel, Robert Wiygul and Coalition Manager and General Counsel, Gerald Blessey, sent a 9-page…
At the Mississippi Sound Coalition’s request, Congress has approved $5 million in federal funding for completion of the Lower Mississippi River Comprehensive Management Study by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the…
MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT:Allison BuchananThe Focus Groupabuchanan@focusgroupms.comCell: (228) 596-3192 Mississippi Sound Coalition Releases Video Urging Action on Northern Gulf Estuary Act For assets related to this release visit this Dropbox link.…
INTRODUCTION: The Times-Picayune and Nola.com in New Orleans published a compelling article on November 26, 2025 by Mike Smith, their acclaimed environmental reporter, entitled: Mississippi River spillways have kept Louisiana dry and safe.…
INTRODUCTION: The Times-Picayune and Nola.com in New Orleans published a compelling article on November 26, 2025 by Mike Smith, their acclaimed environmental reporter, entitled: Mississippi River spillways have kept Louisiana dry and safe.…
MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT:Allison BuchananThe Focus Groupabuchanan@focusgroupms.comCell: (228) 596-3192 Mississippi Sound Coalition Holds Public Update Meeting For assets related to this release visit this Dropbox link. (GULFPORT, Miss., October 2, 2025)…
A NOAA-supported scientific team led by LSU Scientist, Nancy Rabalais, PhD, announced in a press release this week that the Gulf of America hypoxic ‘dead zone’ — an area of low to no…
Representatives Mike Ezell (R-MS) and Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-LA) led a letter with four other Members of Congress to the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development asking them to provide at least $7.5 million for the Lower Mississippi River Comprehensive Management Study (LMRCMS) in the next fiscal year.
The Mississippi Sound Coalition extends heartfelt appreciation to Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), for his questions about the Bonnet Carré Spillway at a Senate confirmation hearing for President Trump’s nominee to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Adam Telle.
1926, my grandfather, a fisherman by trade, began ferrying locals and tourists out to the Mississippi islands in the Gulf of Mexico on a converted wood oyster schooner. Nearly 100 years later, using my family’s hundred-foot passenger ferry, I’ve continued the business of transporting people across the shallow, brackish Mississippi Sound out to the emerald-green waters of the Gulf Islands National Seashore.
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