August flood ushers in ‘new normal’ for Louisiana as Edwards, Smart Growth Summit panel encourage smarter rebuilding

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Describing a “new normal” in which natural disasters like the August flood become more frequent, Gov. John Bel Edwards and experts at the 2016 Louisiana Smart Growth Summit today suggested that investing in smarter and more innovative projects when rebuilding would help mitigate future flood risk. “The frequency of these severe weather events seems to

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