By Hannah Northey, Pamela King | 11/09/2021 04:28 PM ESTAssistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division Kristen Clarke has launched a new environmental justice investigation in an Alabama county.The Justice Department today announced a landmark investigation into wastewater issues in an Alabama county that is home to prominent environmental justice activist Catherine Flowers.Flowers, who now serves as a White House environmental justice adviser, detailed the sewage problems that plagued Lowndes County, Ala., in her book "Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against...…By Hannah Northey, Pamela King | 11/09/2021 04:28 PM ESTAssistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division Kristen Clarke has launched a new environmental justice investigation in an Alabama county.The Justice Department today announced a landmark investigation into wastewater issues in an Alabama county that is home to prominent environmental justice activist Catherine Flowers.Flowers, who now serves as a White House environmental justice adviser, detailed the sewage problems that plagued Lowndes County, Ala., in her book "Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against...WW…

A massive coastal restoration project in Louisiana could test whether new wetlands can be created faster than they’re disappearing under waves and rising seas.The $1.5 billion project would redirect more than 12% of the Mississippi River’s flow into Barataria Bay, a nearly 600,000-acre expanse of degraded marsh that’s drowning in salt water. The proposed plan would deposit millions of tons of land-building sediment in the basin over the next 50 years.Proponents say it’s the critical element of a $50 billion state coastal restoration program that rivals Florida’s yearslong recovery effort in...…A massive coastal restoration project in Louisiana could test whether new wetlands can be created faster than they’re disappearing under waves and rising seas.The $1.5 billion project would redirect more than 12% of the Mississippi River’s flow into Barataria Bay, a nearly 600,000-acre expanse of degraded marsh that’s drowning in salt water. The proposed plan would deposit millions of tons of land-building sediment in the basin over the next 50 years.Proponents say it’s the critical element of a $50 billion state coastal restoration program that rivals Florida’s yearslong recovery effort in...WW…