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Bid to relocate Louisiana town runs into difficulties
Isle de Jean Charles getting government funds to move because of global warming
Published Wed, Jul 5, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Washington
THERE was a fight coming and everyone knew it, so the reverend asked his guests to start with a prayer.
"Dear Lord, here we gather to consider ways and means that we might be relocated," began Roch Naquin, who lives in Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, a town slipping into the sea and the site of a radical federal policy experiment.
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