573-million dollars of the nearly two-billion-dollar spending plan of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority is allocated to the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion Project. But the project has been paused for 90 days since Governor Jeff Landry questioned its effectiveness and cost. Despite this uncertainty, CPRA included full funding in the plan and Restore the Mississippi River Delta Campaign Manager Simone Maloz (muh-LAWZ) says a majority of Louisiana voters are on board and there are a lot of unanswered questions that Landry hasn’t answered.
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Louisiana Congressmen Clay Higgins and Troy Carter have filed legislation to give the FDA the authority to destroy contaminated food imports. Currently many shipments contaminated with banned drugs or pathogens are simply returned to exporters. Deborah Long with the Southern Shrimp Alliance says this practice undermines American producers who follow strict safety standards and it threatens a sustainable industry.
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If one New Orleans-area lawmaker has his way, there will be no more afternoon games at LSU in the month of September. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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It’s National Crawfish Day, and it’s observed every year on April 17th. Easter weekend is a big weekend for crawfish boils and Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain says you can find live crawfish below three dollars a pound…