Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority has $50 billion in plans for the state’s endangered coastline, and St. Mary Parish is a big part of those plans, the authority’s chairman told the St. Mary Industrial Group on Monday. Statewide, “2019 will have more protection projects under construction than we’ve had in our history,” Chairman Chip Kline said at the Petroleum Club of Morgan City. Kline outlined the authority’s history, which began at federal insistence after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Louisiana lost more than 2,000 square miles of valuable coastal land from 1932-2016, an area equal to the state of Delaware. Louisiana stands ...