# Barataria Basin

This week, hosts Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham welcome Dr. John Dale "Zach" Lea to the show to debate the merits of the Mid Barataria Sediment Diversion (MBSD), a massive coastal marsh restoration plan currently in development with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Louisiana Coastal Pro…

At Long Last, More Regulations For Forever Chemicals This week, the EPA proposed the first national standards for drinking water that would set limits on the amount of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) chemicals that would be allowed in water systems. There are thousands of different PFAS…

Episode Source Material We still don’t know the full impacts of the BP oil spill, 10 years later by Alejandra Borunda Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Doug Brown’s lonely fall from the Deepwater Horizon to ‘The Great Invi…