Oil and Pipeline Companies Are Backing a 'Water Quality Restoration' Project in North America's Biggest Swamp

Louisiana activists say the East Grand Lake river diversion will smother part of the Atchafalaya Basin, creating new land for fossil energy development in the process.

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