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Louisiana officials have spent years trying to make the rest of the country understand that this state's coastal erosion crisis is a national environmental issue.
That's why it is encouraging that a White House working group is calling for coastal restoration in Louisiana and Mississippi to be a priority on par with navigation and flood protection in future federal decision-making.
Coastal restoration certainly deserves that degree of attention, and in the case of flood protection, healthy wetlands are a critical part of the multiple lines of defense strategy that the task force has endorsed.