Mark Schleifstein
@MSchleifstein
Environment/Hurricane/Levee reporter for The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate; Co-author, Path of Destruction; Member, SEJ, IRE
Another Walt take on Mid-Barataria cancellation nola.com/opinions/walt_…
Making Americans poor, less safe again: apnews.com/article/labor-…
New-old Myrtle Grove plan will take additional years to be permitted, Corps says, and will restore much less land than discarded MBSD plan. nola.com/news/environme…
Opponents want full EIS to address impacts on Lake Maurepas theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne…
Maybe CSPAN can schedule opposition speech replays in thee Colbert time slot - until Congress cuts its funding. wapo.st/4lZduJJ
Chris Rose’s odyssey from Katrina to the woods in Maryland, expertly outlined by Keith Spera. theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne…
What country is this?
Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields. Trump calls me “Newscum” — but he’s the real scum.
Jess D’Souza had hoped to finally turn a profit this year, aided by a federal program to bolster local food systems. The Trump administration upended her plans. Read the full story via @WisconsinWatch and the Ag & Water Desk: wisconsinwatch.org/2025/07/wiscon…
Drought usually means “drier than normal.” But in a changing climate, what counts as normal? Scientists and policymakers are rethinking how drought is defined, and what that means for farmers. Read more from @KBIA and @RatanpalH. kbia.org/kbia-news/2025…
“What we want out of FEMA (is) a competent and functional agency, whether it’s FEMA, whatever it is, we just want it to be able to work,” Landry said. nola.com/news/environme…
Please pay attention to this thread, and ask yourself who benefits from these cuts?
FOLKS. These estimated savings from one small corner of @NOAA are 500 TIMES the annual budget of @HRD_AOML_NOAA and more than double NOAA's entire budget. This is a no-brainer.