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SOUL Tree Initiative

Jasmine Moll

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Healthy Gulf Joins Conservation Groups in Yazoo Pumps Suit againt EPA

Andrew Whitehurst

Healthy Gulf joined American Rivers, National Audubon Society and Sierra Club in a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency, asking a federal judge to rule on whether EPA's 2008 Clean Water Act veto of the Yazoo Backwater Pump project still applies to a 2020 Army Corps of Engineers re-do. The project's pumping capacity and purpose remain the same as the earlier project which was vetoed during the George W. Bush Administration. The project's impacts to wetlands and habitats remain significant in the 2020 re-do version, and the Conservation Groups maintain that the veto still prohibits the pumps. EPA has used a Clean Water Act veto on a development project 13 times since 1972. The agency has slightly modified some vetoes after-the-fact, but has never completely revoked one.

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Green Infrastructure: A Solution

Jasmine Moll

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Offshore drilling, renewable energy and election 2020

Christian Wagley

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Why the Gulf needs oyster sanctuary reefs

Oyster populations all around the US are at all time lows. This fact calls for serious measures to be put in place to help restore oyster populations before it is too late.

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Mississippi's 2020 (virtual) Coastal Restoration Summit

Andrew Whitehurst

This is a report on some of the restoration subjects covered at MDEQ's 2020 Coastal Restoration Summit which was held in a virtual "Zoom conference" format on Nov. 10th.

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Thank You for protecting the Gulf's deep-sea Corals

Andrew Whitehurst

The actions of Healthy Gulf members and supporters helped send a coral protection message to the Gulf Council. Your Action alert letters made a difference!

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Yazoo Pumps (Again)

Andrew Whitehurst

The controversial Yazoo Backwater Area pump project in the lower Mississippi Delta is again being advanced by the Army Corps of Engineers and the State of Mississippi. Much weight is given to a single new piece of Corps-sponsored research on soil moisture that the agency uses to conclude that a large pumping plant will not cause present wetland areas to change to non-wetland classification. The Corps's justification of the pumps on these wetland effects is presented in a new Supplemental EIS that could open the door for the Environmental Protection Agency to revisit and rescind its 2008 veto of the project under the Clean Water Act.

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Stormwater Incentives: Permeable Pavement

Jasmine Moll

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Deep Sea Corals in the Gulf

Raleigh Hoke