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Louisiana's coastal communities could see $5.5B in damages in worst-case climate change scenario

NOLA.com · Mark Schleifstein · last updated

In just six years, cost estimates of the damage storm surge might do to Louisiana’s coastal communities have doubled, thanks to climate change and other factors, according to a new Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority study.

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