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Louisiana's governor raises major doubts about a stalled $3 billion coastal restoration project

Nov. 21, 2024 17:44 PM EST

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry raised serious objections Thursday to a $3 billion project long hailed as key to restoring the state's eroding coastline, decrying the growing cost and predicting dire harm to a coastal culture dependent on fishing, shrimping and oyster dredging. ...

California’s commercial Dungeness crab season delayed again to protect whales

Oct. 27, 2024 18:14 PM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in California has been delayed for the seventh year in a row to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday that commercial...