Award winning video on human cost of killing Louisiana’s wetlands
GRN and the Charitable Film Network awarded its competition’s grand prize to the short film, “The Human Cost,” by Edward Holub and Christian Roselund. The film highlights Hurricane Gustav’s devastating impact on the Native American Pointe Au Chien Tribe and the residents of Chauvin, LA, juxtaposed with the impacts of the oil and gas industry’s […]
Listen to Levees.org on Garland today
H.J. Bosworth Jr., lead researcher and senior member of Levees.org will be on Garland today (Friday) at 12:10p along with members of the Louisiana Congressional Delegation. That’s 870 AM and 105.3 FM. According the station’s producer, Garland wants to discuss this: The Army Corp already said the pumps on the 17th Street Canal are temporary […]
New data sheds light on Georgia flooding
Updated June 30, 2014. Levees.org discovered in a FOIA request dated March 6, 2009 that the majority of the nation’s population, 54.83% (156,615,630 people) lives in counties protected by levees. This figure is much higher than the percentage reported last year (43%) in a June 2008 briefing to Congress. Manmade levees, like navigational channels, highways […]
