We shifted our operations late last night from Baton Rouge to Boutte (pronounced boo-TEE), on the west bank of the Mississippi, just southwest of New Orleans. As the campgrounds are full, we spent the night in a parking lot.

Thanks to information provided by Greenpeace alumnus Steve Kretzmann, we learned that one of the oil spills we saw from the helicopter yesterday was the largest one (that we know of) in Louisiana, 3.78 million gallons into Cox Bay from the Bass Enterprises Production Company.

Christian, Stephanie and Kenny are on the river in Plaquemines Parish today to get ground (and sea) level documentation of the oil spills and storm surge damage we saw from the air yesterday.

The Jackson (MS) Clarion-Ledger reports that the Department of Justice has sent an e-mail to various U.S. attorneys, asking if any have benn involved in lawsuits regarding environmental groups and levees near New Orleans. The Clarion-Ledger surmises that the Bush administration will attempt to blame the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina on environmentalists, rather than on intense storms induced by global warming and neglect by federal officials.