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Bog Bites Man Everglades restoration stagnating after five years		28 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Bog Bites Man Everglades restoration stagnating after five years Restoration of the Florida Everglades is, well, a bit bogged down, according to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers internal memo. Written by Everglades project manager Gary Hardesty, the memo was addressed to Army Corps colleagues preparing to write a five-year update on the 30-year restoration plans. Hardesty noted that the unde ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental restoration, Florida, news (all these topics)

Big Duddy Missouri River Management Plan to Be Election-Year Hot Potato		03 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Big Duddy Missouri River management plan to be election-year hot potato	Amanda Griscom	03 Mar 2004	Muckraker
Basically, the Army Corps has flipped us the bird -- at a time when it's supposed to be saving the birds." Hello, Big Muddy. Photo: FWS. That's how Eric Eckl, spokesperson for American Rivers, sums up the Army Corps of Engineers' new plan to manage the Missouri River, released on Friday to blistering protest and threats of a new round of lawsuits from the environmental community. The p ...
Topics: American Rivers, Army Corps of Engineers, dams, energy, Missouri, Missouri River, Muckraker, National Academy of Sciences, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Wham, Bam, Thank You, Dam Embrey Dam Removal Heralds Larger Trend		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Wham, Bam, Thank You, Dam Embrey Dam Removal Heralds Larger Trend The Army Corps of Engineers blew up the Embrey Dam in Fredericksburg, Va., yesterday, allowing the Rappahannock River to flow unmolested from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay for the first time since 1910 -- and making it the longest free-flowing river feeding into the Chesapeake, ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, California, dams, energy, rivers and watersheds, Virginia, wildlife (all these topics)

Oh, Yes! It's Mr. Bill! Mr. Bill to Serve as Spokesperson for Louisiana Coastal Campaign		12 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Oh, Yes! It's Mr. Bill! Mr. Bill to Serve as Spokesperson for Louisiana Coastal Campaign With a $14 billion, 30-year restoration plan -- potentially the largest public works project in American history -- at stake, an educational campaign meant to raise awareness about Louisiana's eroding coastal marshes has turned to the one voice capable of spanning generations, artic ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Coastal Erosion, green living, Louisiana, oceans, wetlands (all these topics)

Missouri Compromised Bush Administration Boots Scientists Studying Missouri River		06 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Missouri Compromised Bush Administration Boots Scientists Studying Missouri River Just weeks before producing its final report on the ecosystem of the Missouri River, a team of government scientists was yanked off the job by the Bush administration. The scientists had been at work for years and had recommended, among other things, changes to the river's flow to better mimic natural fluctuations and support ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River, politics (all these topics)

Contempt of Corps		23 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Contempt of Corps A federal judge held the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in contempt of court yesterday for failing to lower water levels in the Missouri River to protect endangered species. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the Corps and the secretary of the Army to reduce water levels in the river as part of an injunction s ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, marine life, Missouri River, rivers and watersheds, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Snake Oil		05 May 2003	Daily Grist
Snake Oil Federal dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Northwest have been spilling oil directly into the waterways on which they sit, in amounts ranging from a trickle to, in one case, 1,000 gallons. Oregon and Washington state authorities have been trying to get a handle on the problem, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is stonewalling. Arguing that it's a matter of nation ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Columbia River, Snake River, water pollution (all these topics)

Howell of Protest		13 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Howell of Protest Under federal regulations, private developers have to pay market rates to lease land bordering the 456 lakes owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. But last month, Ronald Howell signed a 50-year rent-free lease on 280 along Oklahoma's Skiatook Lake, which is owned by the corps, to build a $10 million resort, complete with marina and golf course. What gives? It s ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Oklahoma, outdoor recreation, political groups (all these topics)

All That Jazz and Dredging		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
All That Jazz and Dredging The federal government has earmarked $370 million to clean up the waterways of East Chicago, one of the most polluted areas in the Great Lakes region -- and the town's citizens are unhappy about it. Local residents and environmental groups say the remediation solution proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is as hazardous to the community's health as the ori ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago, Great Lakes, health, Illinois (all these topics)

The Reilly Factor		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Reilly Factor Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly (D) yesterday threw his weight behind opponents of a plan to build a wind farm off the state's coast. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in federal court, Reilly argued that the seabed of Nantucket Sound belongs to the federal government and therefore cann ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, energy, environmental justice, green living, Massachusetts, oceans, politics, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Wet 'n' Not-so-wild		13 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Wet 'n' Not-so-wild New guidelines unveiled by the Bush administration on Friday could spell trouble for 20 million acres of wetlands across the United States. The guidelines were prompted by a 2001 Supreme Court decision that found that isolated, non-navigable ponds and wetlands in Illinois did not merit protec ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental justice, Illinois, politics, rivers and watersheds, United States, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Sound the Alarm		11 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sound the Alarm The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in the midst of a five-year effort to catalogue the woes of the Puget Sound ecosystem, gathering information for what could become an undertaking as grand in size as the $8 billion Everglades restoration project. Many of the 2,354 miles of the sound's seashore, containing tide flats, marshes, and bluffs, are under ass ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, pollution and waste, Washington, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Putting Their Lives on the Lime		21 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Putting Their Lives on the Lime Hoping to halt a limestone mining plan that would destroy 15,000 acres of wetlands in the Florida Everglades, environmentalists sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday. The Corps has issued permits to mine 1.7 billion tons of limestone from Everglades wetlands for roads in so ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental non-government organizations, Florida, land degradation, mining and drilling, Sierra Club, wetlands (all these topics)

Flow-rida		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Flow-rida The Bush administration yesterday revised its proposed rules for the $7.8 billion renovation of the Florida Everglades, with environmentalists greeting the changes as imperfect but undeniably better than the last draft. Under the new rules, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District would ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Interior, Florida, politics, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Dredgers, Dredge Thyself!		18 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Dredgers, Dredge Thyself! In a sort of bureaucratic version of the ancient dictum, "Physician, heal thyself!", the troubled U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced a plan to cleanse itself from within. Its leaders, including Civil Works Director Maj. Gen. Robert Griffin, have unveiled a three-tiered program to improve the Corps' economic and environmental planning by enhancing internal training, using nat ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, United States (all these topics)

Right Tern		08 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Right Tern Barge traffic could grind to a halt on a 250-mile stretch of the Missouri River, after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ruled last week that two endangered species of shorebirds cannot be moved to accommodate the release of water from two dams in South Dakota. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers planned to release water from the ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, dams, energy, Missouri River, placemaking, rivers and watersheds, South Dakota, wildlife (all these topics)

The Sludge Report		21 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
The Sludge Report From the department of You've Got To Be Kidding: An internal U.S. EPA document alleges that the 200,000 tons of toxic sludge dumped by the Army Corps of Engineers into the Potomac River every year is actually good for fish, because it forces them to fl ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, pollution and waste, Potomac River, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, US EPA, Washington DC, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

The Shipping News		21 May 2002	Daily Grist
The Shipping News Salmon and other imperiled species would not be damaged by a proposed deepening of the Columbia River channel, federal scientists announced yesterday. Those findings -- biological opinions required under the Endangered Species Act -- will enable the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Columbia River, fishing, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, placemaking, Washington, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

There's the Right Way and the Army Way		20 May 2002	Daily Grist
There's the Right Way and the Army Way Less than three weeks after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers suspended some 150 projects nationwide due to concerns about the accuracy of their economic analyses, the agency announced Friday that it had reviewed all those projects and given the green light for 118 of them to proceed. The speed with which the reviews were conducted spurred renewed criticism of the Corps, which ori ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, United States (all these topics)

Lies, Damn Lies, and Economic Analyses		01 May 2002	Daily Grist
Lies, Damn Lies, and Economic Analyses In an unprecedented act, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced yesterday that it would suspend work on about 150 congressionally approved water projects to review the economics used to justify them. The move follows last week's decision by the Corps to suspend its deepening of the Delaware River to review the economic analysis, one of many that had come un ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, politics, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Hi, I'm Not in Delaware		24 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Hi, I'm Not in Delaware In the latest blow to its image, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has suspended a planned $311 million deepening of the Delaware River after learning that the General Accounting Office was preparing to question the project's economic justification. Sources said GAO investigators believed the Corps had overstated the potential economic benefits of the p ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Government Accountability Office, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Logan's Heroes		12 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Logan's Heroes Here's a stellar example of your tax dollars at work: Last week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers published an Anna Karenina-sized draft study of a proposal by Arch Coal to strip mine 3,100 acres of West Virginia. The strip mine would be the largest ever in the state, and the company has been seeking a permit since 1997. The environmental impact study, a necessary step on ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, energy, mining and drilling, West Virginia (all these topics)

The Misery River		02 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
The Misery River The Missouri River is the nation's most threatened river, according to a report released today by American Rivers. In its annual report of endangered waterways, the group blamed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the terrible conditions of Big Muddy. The river is dammed in six places; dredging for barge traffic has shortened it by 127 miles and reduced its ...
Topics: American Rivers, Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

A Developer's Wet Dream		15 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
A Developer's Wet Dream The Bush administration weakened protection for wetlands, streams, and swamps across the U.S. yesterday by making changes to the Clean Water Act, despite the objections of the U.S. EPA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The changes, which were proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers and approved by the White House, make it eas ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, politics, US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

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