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Lawsuit seeks to protect dolphins by limiting use of flood-control spillway near New Orleans

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Opening a spillway as a flood-control measure in 2019 sent polluted fresh water from the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico and killed bottlenose dolphins that live in saltwater, according to a new lawsuit.

Several local governments and business groups on the Mississippi Gulf Coast filed the federal lawsuit Monday against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The lawsuit arg…

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