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The Devel(opment) Is in the Details Bush admin finalizes development-friendly wetlands rules		01 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 6:21 AM on 01 Apr 2008 The Bush administration has finalized rules for wetlands development that encourage developers to restore or create new wetlands when old ones are destroyed, sometimes far from the original site. While it sounds innocent enough on its face, opponents of the controversial approach say that natural streams and wetlands are more complex than simply wet places, and they're d ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, news, United States, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

Rolling On As Corps series ends, big questions remain about the future of the Mississippi	Emily Gertz	21 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
There are 8 million stories in the Mississippi Basin, and this week we've told only a few. As lead editor of this Army Corps series, I've been immersed for the last few months in all things Mississippi River. Coming out the other side, I have a few answers, yes, but even more questions to explore. Below is my personal working list of issues that -- while perhaps less acknowledged ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River, placemaking, politics, special series, wetlands (all these topics)

Biloxi Clues A post-Katrina homebuilding project gives hope for weathering severe storms	Emily Gertz	20 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
When Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Mississippi on August 29, 2005, the storm's 125-mile-an-hour winds and 25-foot wall of seawater ground homes, boats, and businesses into matchsticks across the state's three coastal counties: Jackson, Hancock, and Harrison. The cities of Waveland and Bay St. Louis, roughly 20 miles east of the Mississippi-Louisiana state line, were practical ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, green building, Mississippi, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, special series, urban planning (all these topics)

A Widening Gulf? Army Corps climate efforts in New Orleans may not be enough	Mike Tidwell	20 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
No one wants to see this again -- but can post-Katrina protection efforts keep the Big Easy safe? Photo: NOAA Here's the good news: The Army Corps of Engineers is "racing" to complete a comprehensive levee system for metropolitan New Orleans by 2011 that actually takes into account global warming, at least in terms of sea-level rise. Here's the bad news: the levee system under devel ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, climate, climate change adaptation, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, special series (all these topics)

Tempting Fate Fifteen years after the Great Flood of 1993, floodplain development is booming	Emily Gertz	19 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
Once it was a cornfield; now it's a Wal-Mart, a Taco Bell, a Target. Here along a stretch of Missouri's Highway 40, in the Chesterfield Valley area just west of downtown St. Louis, what's said to be the largest strip mall in the country sits on about 46 acres of Mississippi River bottomlands. Less than 20 years ago, the land was open space. Press Play to watch with narration, o ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, special series, urban planning (all these topics)

Cry Me a River Journalist Michael Grunwald on the hubris of the Army Corps	Michael Grunwald	18 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
Dam, that's a pretty lock: the sun sets behind the Corps navigation structure at Alton, Ill. Photo: Mark Hirsch Imagine the Pentagon had been caught red-handed concocting its justification before launching the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Imagine that after the scandal died down, the Pentagon admitted Saddam didn't really have WMDs -- but proposed an even larger invasion, because there was a r ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River, placemaking, shenanigans, special series, water conflicts (all these topics)

Engineering Change A brief history of the creation and growth of the Army Corps	Jennifer Cutraro	17 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
Today, it's almost impossible to say "Army Corps of Engineers" without also saying "Hurricane Katrina" and "levee failure," or "Yazoo Pump" and "boondoggle." But the corps' original mandate made no mention of hurricane and flood protection, or even of the Mississippi River. An Army Corps survey crew in 1916. Photo: history.nasa.gov In 1 ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River, placemaking, special series, water conflicts (all these topics)

The Corps of the Matter A special series on the Army Corps and the Mississippi River		17 Mar 2008	Grist Feature
It's spring, and for most of us that means tackling a few home improvement projects: cleaning the gutters, say, or replacing storm windows with screens. Remaking the Mississippi An interactive look at a few current Army Corps river projects The Mississippi Valley Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for maintaining the Mississippi as a useful and navigable waterway. But some o ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River, placemaking, special series, water conflicts (all these topics)

Give and Lake Fast-growing Atlanta loses rights to major source of drinking water		06 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:27 PM on 06 Feb 2008 An 18-year water war between Georgia, Alabama, and Florida has come to an end of sorts: A federal appellate court has voided an Army Corps of Engineers agreement that would have given Georgia the rights to nearly 25 percent of federal reservoir Lake Lanier as a source of drinking water for metro Atlanta. Alabama and Florida had sued over the plan, saying it would siphon off water t ...
Topics: Alabama, Army Corps of Engineers, Florida, Georgia, news, placemaking, urban planning, water conflicts (all these topics)

Leggo my Yazoo EPA set to kibosh Mississippi Delta boondoggle	Emily Gertz	06 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Successive presidential administrations -- including the current one -- have tried to rein in the Army Corps of Engineers and its projects, which are mostly known for their tangy combination of high cost, arguable utility, and disregard for the environment. Tried -- and largely failed, thanks to the level-10 force fields erected by congresscritters who covet the flood of Corps project dollars into their districts. So it's startling and welcome news that apparently, ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, habitat loss, Mississippi River, placemaking, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

Yahoo, Yazoo EPA moves to veto wetland-destructive Army Corps project		04 Feb 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, habitat protection, Mississippi, news, politics, progress, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

A dry eye in the House Why Bush's water-bill veto was actually a good idea	Grist	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Michael Grunwald, senior correspondent for Time Magazine and noted critic of the Army Corps of Engineers, says yesterday's historic override of President Bush's water-bill veto isn't worth celebrating -- despite what many environmental activists think. He was the toast of Congress earlier this year, but yesterday Bush was less popular. Photo: whitehouse.gov Hooray! The Everglades and coastal Louisana have been rescued! Activists and politicians alike are giddy o ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Congress, dumbassery, Florida, George Bush, legislation, Louisiana, water conflicts (all these topics)

Iraq, You Wrack Largest Iraqi dam on verge of collapse, say U.S. officials		30 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 10:11 AM on 30 Oct 2007 The largest dam in Iraq "is judged to have an unacceptable annual failure probability," according to assessments by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In other words, the "most dangerous dam in the world" could potentially collapse in the near future, sending a trillion-gallon wave of water into the cities of Mosul and Baghdad and possibly killing hundreds of thousands ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, dams, Iraq, news (all these topics)

Moving Stricture Corps may buy out coastal Miss. towns, encourage residents to move inland		02 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:13 PM on 02 Oct 2007 The Army Corps of Engineers is seeking support from three coastal Mississippi counties for a proposal to buy out 17,000 homes and encourage residents to move inland. The Corps generally reserves buyouts for areas prone to river flooding; the new proposal is an indication that the U.S. may be seriously considering the risk of sea-level rise, coastal erosion, and stronger hu ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, climate, climate change impacts, Mississippi, news, placemaking, politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Engineer Miss Army Corps must halt work on destructive Missouri river project		17 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 3:30 PM on 17 Sep 2007 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was ordered this weekend to cease work on a Mississippi River flood-control project in Missouri that would have cut the river off from its last remaining floodplain, devastated tens of thousands of acres of wetlands, and, um, not controlled flooding. Ordering the Corps to remove any part of the project built so far and restore the area to its historic c ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River, Missouri, news, wetlands (all these topics)

Navigate this New book examines Army Corps ruling	Katharine Wroth	30 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Attention brains: I am contractually obligated, by virtue of having been born, to mention that my father has helped put out a book of essays that look at the Supreme Court's ruling last year on the Army Corps of Engineers and the Clean Water Act, and at the future of federal wetlands protection. The five essays are by lawyer and scholar types who were involved in the case, so they ain't just whistlin' about Dixie. The pieces range from dry analyses to more accessi ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, litigation, politics (all these topics)

Unseamly Behavior Federal judge blocks West Virginia coal-mining permits		26 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Unseamly Behavior Federal judge blocks West Virginia coal-mining permits Foes of mountaintop-removal mining got a break late Friday when a federal judge blocked four permits for mines in West Virginia. The permits, issued by the Army Corps of Engineers, had said it was A-OK for Massey Energy's subsidiaries to fill valleys with the dirt and other detritus left over from shearing off moun ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, coal, energy, mining, news, West Virginia (all these topics)

Nothing to Fear But Corps Itself U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decisions continue to befuddle		14 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Nothing to Fear But Corps Itself U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decisions continue to befuddle Let it not be said that Hurricane Katrina's lessons didn't sink in. For example, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers learned that it's good to look prepared, even if you aren't -- so it (apparently knowingly) installed 34 defective pumps in New Orleans before the 2006 hurricane season. The season was mild, so the C ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana, news, wetlands (all these topics)

Rotten to the Corps The Army Corps of Engineers is the real culprit behind New Orleans' devastation	Michael Grunwald	29 Aug 2006	Soapbox
The fate of this navigation channel on the Louisiana coast, shown in 1970 (left) and 2001, offered a glimpse of things to come. Photos: White House OMB � If an unsafe building collapsed and killed 1,000 people, we wouldn't blame the building's manager, even if he bungled his evacuation plan, or its maintenance crew, even if they had shirked their jobs before the di ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana (all these topics)

Be Careful What You Don't Wish For FBI investigates Illinois environmental activist		23 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Be Careful What You Don't Wish For FBI investigates Illinois environmental activist Add Jim Bensman of Alton, Ill., to your ever-growing list of People the Feds Think You Should Fear. Mild-mannered Bensman is a coordinator with an environmental group (terror level yellow!). In late July, he attended an Army Corps of Engineers public meeting on the proposed construction of a fis ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, dams, energy, Federal Bureau of Investigation, news (all these topics)

How Much Wood Would a Woodpecker Peck If a Woodpecker Existed? Judge halts irrigation project that could harm ivory-billed's habitat		21 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
How Much Wood Would a Woodpecker Peck If a Woodpecker Existed? Judge halts irrigation project that could harm ivory-billed's habitat A federal judge has temporarily halted a $319 million Army Corps of Engineers irrigation project in Arkansas, pending further study of potential impact to the habitat of the ivory-billed woodpecker -- which may or may not be extinct. The last c ...
Topics: Arkansas, Army Corps of Engineers, National Wildlife Federation, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Army Corps of Darkness Army Corps of Engineers has screwed up more than NOLA levees		15 May 2006	Daily Grist
Army Corps of Darkness Army Corps of Engineers has screwed up more than NOLA levees The Army Corps of Engineers spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on ill-designed, ineffective, and environmentally disastrous projects -- and that's not the enviros talking. Harsh critiques of the Corps -- whose work includes draining wetlands and mucking about with rivers -- have come from the National A ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana, Missouri River, news (all these topics)

Wonder If New Orleans Wrote Them a Recommendation Letter Army Corps can continue its Missouri River meddling, Supreme Court says		26 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Wonder If New Orleans Wrote Them a Recommendation Letter Army Corps can continue its Missouri River meddling, Supreme Court says In bad news for enviros (why are we always saying that?), the Supreme Court has declined to hear challenges in three cases questioning the Army Corps of Engineers' authority on the Missouri River. With authority now decidedly in hand, the Corps ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River, Montana, news, North Dakota, South Dakota (all these topics)

Throw Momma From the Pontchartrain Some post-Katrina floodwaters cleaner than expected		13 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Throw Momma From the Pontchartrain Some post-Katrina floodwaters cleaner than expected Some of the floodwaters pumped out of New Orleans by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- about 250 billion gallons all told, dumped mostly into Lake Pontchartrain -- may not have been as toxic as initially feared. Researchers at Louisiana State University took samples five to nine days after the deluge and found ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

System of a Drown The long history of political bungling that sank New Orleans		10 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
System of a Drown The long history of political bungling that sank New Orleans In "The Slow Drowning of New Orleans," The Washington Post's Michael Grunwald and Susan B. Glasser trace the centuries-long history of shortsighted greed and political expediency that left the Crescent City vulnerable to disaster. In recent decades, Louisiana has received more Army Corps of Engineers funding than any ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana, news, wetlands (all these topics)

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