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EPA moves to veto wetland-destructive Army Corps project |
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04 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:58 PM on 04 Feb 2008 The U.S. EPA has moved to block an Army Corps of Engineers flood-control project in the Mississippi Delta, the first time the agency has aimed to veto a Corps project since 1990. The $220 million project would have built the world's largest hydraulic pump, sucking dry enough wetland area to cover New York City in order to protect a sparsely populated area of soybean fields from Yazoo River flo ... |
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