Word: louisiana
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...helicopter or Air Force One won't do it. The real picture doesn't resolve itself until you go 450 miles up, where a flock of Earth-observing satellites have been training their cameras on the Gulf of Mexico and beaming what they see back home. Researchers at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge began studying the first portfolio of pictures taken since the hurricane hit last week, and what they saw was a shock. Entire barrier islands are missing. Coastal marshes have been shredded. A Native American encampment to the south of Port Sulphur seems to have vanished. Everywhere...
...Gulf Coast have always been potential deathtraps, they have always been gold mines too--great natural ports on a warm-water gulf, perfectly situated to profit from the traffic moving up and down one of the world's most important shipping lanes: the Mississippi River. The port of South Louisiana moves more tonnage each year than any other in the nation. Add to that the commodities the Gulf produces, including nearly 30% of the nation's oil, 20% of its natural gas and a third of its fish and shellfish, and it is clear--as many have pointed out since...
...Louisiana, the shrinkage is most dramatic. The state has lost 1 million acres of coast--11/2 times the area of Rhode Island--since 1930, nearly half of that vanished land lying between New Orleans and the Gulf. The city proper is estimated to be sinking 3 ft. per century. And while the whole world is struggling with rising sea levels, New Orleans and its environs hurt more than most. The State of Louisiana is estimated to be losing land at the alarming rate of about two acres every hour...
...ripe for a meltdown, yet like so many other plants nationwide, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has allowed it to increase its output by 20 percent. The plant should have expired years ago, but instead it was purchased and upgraded by Entergy, a company based out of conveniently distant Louisiana...
...prices. "There is not a panacea of short-term solutions to the [gasoline] price situation today because it's a demand-driven price," said House Energy Committee chairman Joe Barton, Republican from Texas, at a news conference Wednesday. House Ways and Means committee member Rep. Jim McCrery of Louisiana concurred: "I don?t think there?s any magic political solution." And Congressman Adam Putnam of Florida, a member of the House Republican leadership, says that at a bipartisan House and Senate meeting on gas prices with President Bush on Wednesday, all the participants from both parties recognized that "there...