NEW YORK, May 16 -- Waterkeeper Alliance issued the following news release on May 15, 2024: Today, a plaintiff group, including Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association-West, Healthy Gulf, Sierra Club and its Delta Chapter, and Waterkeeper Alliance filed a lawsuit (https://law.tulane.edu/sites/default/files/u2404/ECF%201%20complaint.pdf) to challenge the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' approval of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority's (CPRA) Eas more PR

MADISON, Wisconsin, May 15 -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: The Freedom From Religion Foundation is strongly objecting to the distribution of unconstitutional and highly objectionable religious material at a Louisiana elementary school. A concerned community parent informed the state/church watchdog that Journey Church, a church from the area, distributed during school hours on or around April 9 "The Life Book" at Lessie Moore Elementary (in Pineville, more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 15 -- The Institute for Justice issued the following news release on May 14, 2024: Tomorrow, 18 judges of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will convene to decide whether Erma Wilson is entitled to her day in court--or whether a prosecutor who spent nearly two decades secretly working as a law clerk for the same judges who decided the cases he prosecuted will escape accountability. The case matters for civil-rights plaintiffs across the country, but it matters e more PR

OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi, May 15 -- The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium issued the following news release: Each year, members of the Gulf of Mexico Climate and Resilience Community of Practice (COP) give an award recognizing an individual who has done an exemplary job of communicating climate challenges in the Gulf of Mexico. This year, the group named Niki Pace, a research attorney at Louisiana Sea Grant, as the recipient of the Spirit of Community Award. Pace is no stranger to the more PR