Author: Cara Buckley and Annie Flanagan
Published on: 21/04/2025 | 00:00:00

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Climate|Fighting Louisiana Floodwaters With Patches of Green You have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading. 50 States, 50 Fixes is a series about local solutions to environmental problems. Angela Chalk was skeptical about how simple fixes like rain gardens could soak up extra rain. Water Wise has installed 150 projects in public and private spaces across low-lying neighborhoods. They can retain 190,000 gallons of water per storm, mitigating local flooding. Catching rain in planters, french drains and gardens also means storm water previously contaminated by concrete and asphalt is filtered. One Water Wise project was installed at the behest of Brenda Lomax-Brown, whose neighborhood is sandwiched between an interstate and a state highway. To get to the local community center after heavy rains, people had to wade through standing water, often in rubber boots. A week later, she ventured outside when the skies opened up, unleashing sheets of rain. Tell Us About Solutions Where You Live We’re telling one story from every U.S. State. We won’t publish anything without your permission. What are we looking for? Stories of people, groups, organizations, strategies or innovations that are fixing environmental problems, from the state level to the backyard. President Trump announced that he planned to relax limits on pollution from cars, saying that the move wouldn’t affect the environment. But decades of science show that’s not true. Power plants and others could write to seek exemptions to mercury and other restrictions.

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