David Underhill's blog

For months Mobile Area Water & Sewer System (MAWSS) and community groups have been resisting an attempt by Plains company to run a crude oil pipeline through the watershed of the reservoir supplying metro Mobile's water. A recent defeat in the county courthouse confronts MAWSS with a choice about continuing to resist or surrendering to Plains' demand for a pipeline right-of-way across land MAWSS owns in the watershed.

Today the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, established to oversee projects funded by the RESTORE Act, will meet in New Orleans to vote on the Initial Comprehensive Plan: Restoring the Gulf Coast’s