Published: May 26, 2023
By: Claire Sullivan, LSU Manship School News Service
The Louisiana Legislature has unanimously approved a $50 billion plan to protect and restore the state’s diminishing coast over the next 50 years.
“We’re not just throwing money at the problem,” Gov. John Bel Edwards said Friday in a press conference lauding the plan that is updated by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority every six years. “We’re doing it in a way that really makes sense, that follows the science.”
Edwards called the plan the most robust coastal effort in the country and maybe the world.
The Legislature also unanimously approved the authority’s budget for the next fiscal year, which totaled an unprecedented $1.6 billion for coastal restoration and hurricane protection projects.
In a session marked by battles over the budget and cultural issues, the hefty coastal plan received no dissent from lawmakers.
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