Nearly 9% of state’s taxable land at risk of being lost by 2050 due to rising seas 

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A recent analysis by Climate Central predicts that as much as 8.7% of Louisiana’s total taxable land area could be lost to rising sea levels by 2050. Coastal flooding caused by sea level rise is shifting the tide lines that states use to distinguish boundaries between public and private property further inland. If a property

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