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2026

Wild and Imperiled: The Atchafalaya Basin’s Fight for Survival,  p. 36-37 The Geographer Magazine

Federal Judge Pulls CPRA Permit for Atchafalaya Basin Sediment Project, Dredge Wire

Judge Yanks Permit for Louisiana Wetland Project in Victory for Environmental Groups, Courthouse News Service

Mississippi River: Public Meetings Reveal Growing Strain on Flood Defenses and Commerce, El-Balad

Mississippi River Commission Hears Flood, Navigation Concerns in Baton Rouge, WVLA Baton Rouge

Bayou Politique, KRVS

2025

Second Lawsuit Filed to Challenge East Grand Lake Project, KATC

East Grand Lake Project Hit with Second Lawsuit Over Atchafalaya Basin Impacts, KLFY

Parish Council Hears Concerns About the Atchafalaya Basin, Teche Today

Bear Spray, Tampons and Donuts: Here’s How This Team Tracks Louisiana’s Black Bear Population, The Advocate

Revised Wetlands Protection Laws In Louisiana, Other States Open Door to Development, Louisiana Illuminator

Senate Bill 94 Changes Wetlands Protections in Louisiana, KATC

Parish Files Amicus Brief in Support of Legal Challenge to East Grand Lake Project, Teche Today

St Martin Parish Council Files Amicus Brief Opposing Atchafalaya Basin Diversion Project, WGNO

Parish Council Warned of Flooding Risk if East Grand Lake Project Proceeds, Teche Today

Film Documents the Eye-Opening Journey of Three Young Women Through a Vanishing Louisiana, Nola.com

With Another Restoration Project, Environmentalists Say North America’s Largest River Swamp is Shrinking, Courthouse News Service

2024

A Planned Black Bear Hunt Could Destroy Nearly 40 Years of Conservation, Sierra Club

20th Anniversary Gala, WAFB

2023

2022

2021

2020

The Good Fight(pdf) p. 48-55 Wild Hope Magazine

St Martin Cypress Swipe, Independent Media

2019

Louisiana Purpose,  Waterkeeper Alliance

2018

Environmental Groups Sue Corps to Block Bayou Bridge Pipeline,  Nola.com

Trump's Pipeline Agenda Just Went Through a Disasterous WeekThink Progress

Environmental Groups Sue Corps Over Pipeline ApprovalThe Advocate

Another Bayou Bridge Law Suit FIledWRKF

Louisiana Pipeline Project Spurs Demand for Land-Grab RecordsCourthouse News Service

Louisiana Environmental Groups Turn to Court in Bayou Bridge Pipeline BattleThe Advocate

Enviromental Groups Sue for Records On Louisiana Pipeline ProjectReuters

Recent Louisiana Cold Not Enough to Kill Crawfish Ahead of SeasonThe Advocate

Bayou Bridge Pipeline Faces Mounting Legal Challenges in LouisianaDesmog Blog

Bayou Bridge Pipeline Begins Construction in Louisiana Amid ProtestsThe Advocate

Public Records Law Doesn't Apply to Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company, Judge RulesNola.com

Louisiana Pipeline Firm Can Keep Land-Grab Records SecretCourthouse News Service

Local Organization Raises Funds for Atchafalaya Basin PreservationKATC 3

Guest Column: Why We are Fighting Bayou Bridge PipelineThe Advocate

Outdoorsmen, Environmentalist Come Together for Basinkeeper FundraiserDaily Iberian

Bayou Bridge Pipeline's Controversial Construction BeginsNola.com

Enviros Seek Halt of LA Pipeline Work Amid ChallengeLaw 360 

Legal Challenge Filed to Stop Construction of BBPDesmog

Pipeline Ruling on Hold As Judge Weighs ArgumentsThe Advocate

Judge Hears Testimony in Request to Halt Bayou Bridge PipelineNola.com

Bid To Halt Bayou Bridge Pipeline Rejected Despite Habitat ThreatSierra Magazine

Judge Denies Environmental Groups' Records Search RequestLouisiana Record

Bayou Bridge Pipeline Must Stop, Federal Judge RulesNola.com

Judge Halts Construction on Bayou Bridge PipelineKATC3

Judge Halts Construction of Pipeline Through Atchafalaya BasinCourthouse News Service

Federal Judge Blocks Construction of Bayou Bridge PipelineEcoWatch

Pipeline Resistance Confronts Big Oil in the Bayou, Roots of Rebellion: A Guide to Insurgencies from Coast to Coast

2017

Oil Pipeline's Permit Approval Reignites DebateHouma Courier

LA Black Bear Delisting Lawsuit Slows the ProcessThe Daily Iberian

Rising River Bottom Could Switch Mississippi to Atchafalaya Riverbed in Next Mega Flood, The Times-Picayune

Guest Column: Crawfishermen Under ThreatThe Advocate

Bayou Bridge Pipeline Opponents File to InterveneDesmog

Students Mobilize in Response to Proposed Bayou Bride PipelineTulane Hullabaloo

Big Charity Director to Unveil Films on Bayou Bridge PipelineNola.com

Basin's Waterflow Brought up at a MeetingThe Daily Iberian

St. James Residents Oppose Proposed PipelineThe Louisiana Weekly

Residents of 'Cancer Alley' Call Pipeline a Final InsultCourthouse News

Part of Our PunishmentThe Daily Corinthian

Bayou Bridge Pipeline Challenged in LawsuitNola.com

St. James Residents, Environmental Groups Sue Over Bayou Bridge PipelineKATC3

After DAPL, Pipeline Fight Moves to LouisianaEco Watch 

Swamp Tale: Dan Collins Suit Speaks to Larger Issues About Conflict and Controversy in the BasinBaton Rouge Business Report

Former Senator Mary Landrieu: Bayou Bridge Pipeline Warrants ApprovalThe Advocate

Proposed Pipeline Highlights Legacy of Problems in Atchafalaya BasinThe Advocate

With Bayou Bridge Pipeline, Louisiana Again Weighs Oil, EnvironmentNola.com 

Bayou Bridge Pipeline Protests Heat Up in Louisiana, Inside Sources

Basinkeeper Releases Policy Statement on Bayou Bridge PipelineThe Independent

No More Pipelines, Environmental Group Says, Citing 114 AccidentsNola.com

Pipeline Hearing Attracts Crowd Concerned About AtchafalayaThe Advocate

Henderson Officials Offering Some Support, With Reservations on Proposed Bayou Bridge PipelineThe Advocate

Great Divide: Proposed Pipeline Highlights Legacy of Problems in Atchafalaya Basin, The Advocate

Louisiana Police Pull Over Activist at Behest of BP

2016

Proposed South LA Pipeline Linked to Dakota Pipeline, The Advocate

Defiant after Dakota setback, Texas company eyes pipeline through Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin, The Institute for Southern Studies

Landman Scores Another Victory In Ongoing Whistleblower Suit, The Independent

Protected Forests in Europe Felled to Meet EU Renewable Targets, The Guardian

The Bayou Watchdog, Garden & Gun

Crowley Lions Hear About Threat to Atchafalaya Basin, The Crowley Post-Signal

Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Appeals $750,000 Whistleblower Verdict, LDNR

Wildlife Woes: Criminal Investigation, Politcal Drama at WLF, LA Politics Weekly

State Appeals Whistleblower Verdict, The Advocate

New project aims to ‘fix the plumbing’ of sediment clogging the Atchafalaya Basin, The Advocate

Balm for the Budget Crisis, (continued here), Teche News

2015

Jury Awards Whistleblower $750K, The Advocate

ABP Canal Exposed in Court, Teche News

Bayou Wood Pellets CEO Responds to Concerns, MyArkLaMiss.com

Gov Bobby Jindal Asks State Supreme Court to Uphold Law Banning Wetlands Damage, Nola.com

Of Sinker Cypress and Causes, Montgomery Advertiser

DNR Bidding Tainted, (continued here), Teche News

DNR Vows to Save the Basin, (continued here), Teche News

Wood Pellet Operations Underway at Port of Baton Rouge, The Advocate

German Pellets Reports Strong 2014, Startup of Louisiana Plant, Biomass Magazine

2014

Guardian of the Green Cathedral (Dutch), In Beeld

Coalition for Coastal Resilience and Economy, The Times-Picayune

Investing Upstream, Biomass Magazine

Judge Rules New State Law Doesn’t Stop Levee Authority From Suing Oil Companies, Nola.com

Man Killed in Accident at Drax Biomass Plant in Louisiana, Energy Justice Network

Louisiana Forests Being Sacrificed to Fuel Europe’s Biomass Boom, Aljazzera

European Wood Pellet Demand Threatens American Forests (Dutch), Leeuwarder Courant

2013

Logging Bistineau a Bad Idea, Shreveport Times

Butte La Rose, Helen Boudreaux

Butte La Rose, Helen Boudreaux

Oil Company Agrees to Pay $715,000 for Atchafalaya Basin Spills, Nola.com

2012

The Swamp Man, Sierra

Environmental Group Sues Taylor, The Times-Picayune

Taylor Well Still Leaking, The Times-Picayune

European Demand for Wood Pellets Threatens American Forest, Teake Zuidema

Pellets Promise New Demand for Wood

2011

Tuscaloosa Shale Activity, The Advocate

Ex-Agriculture Commissioner Backed Debt; Credit Union Wants State to Pay, The Advocate

The Basinkeeper, The Advocate

State Cypresses Endangered, Rob Pavey

2010

Fisherman Not Happy About Being Linked to Illegal Dam in Atchafalaya Basin, Teche Today

Louisiana to Host Wood Pellet Plant, Biomass Magazine

Wood Pellet Plant at Port of Baton Rouge, The Advocate

“Live Life” First Single From Trees On Fire Debut Album ‘Organica’, ESB Music

2009

Bankruptcy, lawsuits raise questions about backers of Selma pellet mill, AL.com

Fight for the Atchafalaya Basin Centers on Sloppy Permitting, Teche Today

Group Says Dam Suit Settled, The Acadiana Advocate

2008

Mulch Madness, Mother Jones

Sustain the City, Gambit Weekly

Last Stand in the Bayou, People Magazine

Gardeners Asked to Avoid Using Cypress Mulch, Gannet

Mulching Has Multitude of Attractive Benefits, Home&Garden

Home Depot Must Do More to Protect Cypresses, The Marietta Daily Journal

Spanish Lake loop, The Advocate

The Toll of Producing Cypress Mulch, Sierra Club Baton Rouge Group

America's Gardeners Prove They Can Get Too Mulch of a Good Thing, TheWashington Post

2007

Task Force Approves Wetlands Projects, The Times-Picayune

Walmart Will Not Sell LA Cypress Mulch, Business Weekly

Riverkeeper, Industry Spar on Cypress Mulch, Times-Union

Coming Attraction: Cypress Extinction, Green Gazette

Inside Report, The Advocate

State Losing Protection for Mulch, The Acadiana Advocate

2006

Editorial in 1903 was Correct About Fate of Local Cypress Forests, Houma Courier

Cypress Sales Sinful, Gambit Weekly

Coalition calls on Wal-Mart, Home Depot & Lowes to stop selling Cypress Mulch, St. Charles Herald

Save the cypress campaign may help Miss, Healthy Gulf