Latest Mississippi River Delta News: March 21, 2014

Rita Benson LeBlanc: Pelicans name tied to Louisiana’s resilience and coastal restoration
By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune. March 21, 2014.
“For Rita Benson LeBlanc, insisting on the right to change the name of the New Orleans Hornets to Pelicans…” (read more)

BP Partner Anadarko E-Mails Seen Showing Role in Well
By Jef Feeley and Laurel Brubaker Calkins, Bloomberg. March 21, 2014.
“Anadarko Petroleum Corp. officials urged BP to drill deeper into the Gulf of Mexico well…” (read more)

OysterBreak, a new coastal restoration system, to appear in Entrepreneur Week’s Water Challenge
By Jed Lipinski, The Times-Picayune. March 21, 2014.
“Like many young men who grew up fishing, crabbing and swimming on the Gulf Coast…” (read more)

Film shows erosion’s toll on community
By Xerxes Wilson, The Daily Comet (Lafourche Parish, La.). March 21, 2014.
“Explaining the complexity of coastal Louisiana’s land loss crisis to those outside the state will be a heavy task…” (read more)