Jeff Landry's administration has ordered a 90-day pause on work on Louisiana's biggest-ever coastal ... Protection and Restoration Authority. Map of the Mid-Barataria sediment diversion project.

Louisiana extends broader state protections to its coastal wetlands, but not inland ones. In other words, it will be easier to develop wetlands for housing in Missouri, for example, than in Minnesota.

POINTE À LA HACHE, La. (AP) — Oil company Chevron must pay at least $740 million to restore damage it caused to southeast Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, a jury ruled on Friday following a ...

By Adeel Hassan A jury in Louisiana has ruled that Chevron must pay a parish government about $745 million to help restore wetlands that the jury said the energy company had harmed for decades.