Takes a Democrat to face facts and work on figuring out how to deal with foreseeable problems. Right after I finished reading this interesting piece from dKos’ greenandblue (Republicans Can Not Govern Honorably), I found this reminder at NPR.org that Democrats at least TRY to make government work to solve problems.
louisiana's governor declares state of emergency over disappearing coastline:
"Decades of saltwater intrusion, subsidence and rising sea levels have made the Louisiana coast the nation's most rapidly deteriorating shoreline," WWNO's Travis Lux tells our Newscast unit. "It loses the equivalent of one football field of land every hour."
So Governor Jon Bel Edwards has a plan to speed up the chance to implement the plan to save the coastline. NPR quotes from The Times-Picayune:
"The state has a plan to implement more than 100 restoration and protection projects — like rebuilding marshes and barrier islands — but some of those projects are getting slowed down by federal environmental permits."
Those projects are part of a 50-year, $50 billion master plan that was unanimously approved by a state panel on Wednesday, according to The Times-Picayune. The newspaper says the plan "relies largely on money from settlement of the 2010 BP oil spill litigation to speed restoration of coastal land and wetlands and protect them from hurricanes."
Now Edwards is asking President Trump to declare the erosion of Louisiana's coast a national emergency and "provide appropriate federal attention and cooperation" to assist the state. The emergency declaration also asks for Congress to "consider legislation to provide for means by which to expedite all federal permitting and environmental review."