Title from PDF caption title screen (viewed July 29, 2011).
"Originally released December 16, 2010."
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Summary
"Louisiana's offshore berms project involved the construction of massive and costly linear sand barrier systems, seaward of the coast, adjoining or extending existing barrier islands. Federal decision-making on the project implicated a variety of scientific and environmental concerns but evolved into a political issue. The State of Louisiana's "central priority for fighting the encroaching Gulf oil," berms became a lightning rod both for the state's criticism of the federal spill response and for federal officials' skepticism about the state's priorities"--P. 1.
