{"id":130492,"date":"2024-05-29T12:34:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=130492"},"modified":"2024-05-29T12:34:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:34:05","slug":"louisianas-coast-is-sinking-advocates-say-the-governor-is-undermining-efforts-to-save-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=130492","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Louisiana\u2019s coast is sinking. Advocates say the governor is undermining efforts to save it.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2024\/05\/25\/louisiana-coastal-protection-agency-landry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;For the past decade, Louisiana\u2019s program for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/interactive\/2023\/new-orleans-sea-level-hurricane-wetlands\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coastal protection<\/a>\u00a0has been hailed as one of the best in the country, after the devastation from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita pushed the state to shore up coastlines, repair levees and protect natural habitats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But now, environmental advocates and experts say the state\u2019s new Republican governor is undermining its coastal protection agency \u2014 the state\u2019s first and strongest line of defense against climate change-induced sea level rise. In an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mississippiriverdelta.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/75\/files\/\/Sign-On-Letter-Coast-2024-Storm-Season_Finalv3-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">open letter<\/a>&nbsp;published this week and signed by more than 200 business leaders, environmental advocates and other experts, various groups warned against Gov. Jeff Landry\u2019s plans to transform the state\u2019s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe very future of our state is at stake,\u201d the letter read.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;For the past decade, Louisiana\u2019s program for\u00a0coastal protection\u00a0has been hailed as one of the best in the country, after the devastation from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita pushed the state to shore up coastlines, repair levees and protect natural habitats. But now, environmental advocates and experts say the state\u2019s new Republican governor is undermining its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130493,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130492\/revisions\/130493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}