My colleagues on PDX 2 Gulf Coast have described in stark terms the surreal scene on the seven miles of beach at Grand Isle, Louisiana. Miles of beach have been trucked to a giant “washing machine” where oil contaminated sand has literally been subjected to a wash/rinse cycle and re-deposited in giant piles and reapplied [...]

We’re rushing from Grand Isle, Louisiana to D’Iberville, Mississippi where our guide, Pat Heidingsfelder, along with the help of local community organizer Linda St. Martin, has set up a town hall style meeting with Gulf Coast shrimpers. It’s an uncanny mix of folks: half are Cajun, the other are from the Vietnamese community. But in [...]

On my sixth day with colleagues from PDX 2 Gulf Coast I awoke to a lowering sky and imminent rain. Leaving our temporary headquarters at Camp Victor in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, I headed toward what my iPhone app assured me was the shortest route to Biloxi Bay. As I ran along General Pershing Avenue and [...]