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Covers:  Environment, coastal restoration, levees, hurricanes, climate change, petrochemical industry
Doesn't Cover: products, general business
Environment/Hurricane/Levee reporter for The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate; Co-author, Path of Destruction; Member, SEJ, IRE

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Mark Schleifstein’s Biography

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Mark Schleifstein is the environment reporter for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, and leader of its Louisiana Coastal Reporting Team.

In 2017, he was awarded the U.S. Water Prize by the U.S. Water Alliance for his career reporting on water and the environment.
His stories on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil spill were among The Times-Picayune work honored with the 2010 Edward J. Meeman Award for environmental reporting from the Scripps-Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards program.

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Mark Schleifstein’s Journalist Portfolio

Fortified but still in peril, New Orleans braces for its future: Our Drowning Coast

Fortified but still in peril, New Orleans braces for its future: Our Drowning Coast

New Orleans has its best storm protection ever. Experts say that is not enough.

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Katrina archives: Flooding will only get worse in New Orleans

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By Mark Schleifstein Verified
| The Shreveport-Bossier Advocate Verified
This story, headlined "Flooding will only get worse," was originally published Aug. 31, 2005. It is being republished for the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as part of The Times-Picayune's Pulitzer-winning coverage.
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New Orleans’ hurricane protection system faces looming threats. Money to address them is lacking.

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By Mark Schleifstein Verified
| The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Verified
Plans to address looming threats to the New Orleans area’s involving sinking land and the effects of climate change are at risk of being put on hold due to a lack of funding. The Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts are the latest factor. But funding concerns also date back to President Joe Biden’s term, when only relatively small amounts of money were appropriated.
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Louisiana's plan to help reduce size of Gulf 'dead zone' called ineffective

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By Mark Schleifstein Verified
| The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) Verified
An update of Louisiana's strategy to help reduce the low-oxygen “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is being criticized as inadequate because of its reliance on a proposed project now in doubt and for not spelling out a plan to convince other polluting states to address the problem. The draft is a five-year update on reducing nutrient water pollution from fertilizer, sewage and industrial sources, which help form the large low-oxygen zone in the Gulf every summer.
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