Former House Speaker-designate Bob Livingston is lobbying for the Environmental Defense Fund in regard to its participation in the "Changing Course" project to develop a more sustainable Lower Mississippi River Delta region.
Human intervention—via construction of dams, spillways, levees and navigation/flood management structures over the decades—has hindered the delta's natural land building process.
The result: Louisiana has lost 1,900 sq. miles of wetlands during the past century, hurting the vital tourism/energy/shipping sectors. Coastal Lousiana is home to nearly 2M people.
Changing Course is an anchor project of the $9.3B Gulf Coast Ecosystem Council Project of the Pelican State and the Army Corps of Engineers to integrate navigation, flood control and wetland restoration initiatives.
EDF is working in partnership with Shell Oil, Rockefeller Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Walton Family Foundation and Greater New Orleans Foundation.
Livingston, who was a Louisiana Republican Congressman, represents EDF in DC with Livingston Group staffers J. Allen Martin and Paul Cambon.
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