NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 4 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued the following news release: Heavy rain in the Mississippi Valley and rising Mississippi River water stages and flow are prompting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to open the Bonnet Carre Spillway Friday, April 3, to keep the volume of Mississippi River flows at New Orleans from exceeding 1.25 million cubic feet per second (cfs). COVID-19: In accordance with the state and federal guidelines in response to COVID-  more

WASHINGTON, March 31 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release on March 30: * * * - $138 million increase in payments demonstrates energy agenda success * * * Today, U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced that the Department disbursed almost $353 million in FY 2019 energy revenues to the four Gulf oil and gas producing states - Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, and their coastal political subdivisions (CPS) - an increase of  more

CORVALLIS, Oregon, April 1 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- Oregon State University issued the following news: Increasing numbers of bison in Yellowstone National Park in recent years have become a barrier to ecosystem recovery in the iconic Lamar Valley in the northern part of the park, according to a study by Oregon State University scientists. In the valley, foraging by bison exerts 10 times the environmental pressure of elk, historically the area's dominant herbivore - that's a problem because biso  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 4 -- Rep. Garret Graves, R-Louisiana, issued the following statement regarding the opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway: "This is the first time in the Bonnet Carre's 89-year history that the structure has had to be opened three years in a row. Every year, 30 states and 2 Canadian provinces thaw out and drain into the Mississippi River system and all that water funnels down and becomes Louisiana's problem. The opening of the spillway causes major disruption to crit  more