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Louisiana breaks ground on Isle de Jean Charles resettlement project amid pandemic
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Louisiana breaks ground on Isle de Jean Charles resettlement project amid pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t changed life much for Chris Burnet, a lifelong resident of Isle de Jean Charles, a quickly eroding strip of land among south Louisiana’s wetlands. Though the island, about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, can’t be saved from the sea-level rise and coastal erosion that
Isle de Jean Charles tribe turns down funds to relocate first US 'climate refugees’ as Louisiana buys land anyway
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Isle de Jean Charles tribe turns down funds to relocate first US 'climate refugees’ as Louisiana buys land anyway

The announcement that the State of Louisiana had purchased land for a resettlement project spearheaded by the Isle de Jean Charles Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe (IDJC) reached the Tribe’s executive secretary, Chantel Comardelle, via an emailed press release. The news hit her like a slap in the
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