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Headline	Author	Published	Section
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)

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)

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)

Missouri Loves Company New Missouri River Management Plan Sparks Protest		01 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Missouri Loves Company New Missouri River Management Plan Sparks Protest A massive new plan to manage the Missouri River, released by the Army Corps of Engineers on Friday, managed to please exactly nobody, in keeping with the tenor of 15 years of debate over the future of the "Big Muddy." Conservation groups immediately protested and filed lawsuits, saying the plan i ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Missouri River, placemaking, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

They Blinded Me With Pseudo Science Bush Administration Waves Off Scientists Whose Findings Are Inconvenient		12 Nov 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Interior, Florida, Missouri River, US EPA, 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)

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 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)

Hard Corps		03 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Hard Corps The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday did an about-face and abandoned a plan to change the way it manages the Missouri River, even though it has publicly acknowledged that the current system violates the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has said for years that the river must be returned to a mor ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River, politics, rivers and watersheds, United States, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Republican Riders in the Saddle Again	Donella H. Meadows	24 Jul 2000	Global Citizen
I don't get it. Why are the 24-hour news media, always desperate for gripping stories, reporting every hour on the Camp David summit, though, as I write this column, they have no access to what's really going on? Why don't some of those eager reporters move over to Capitol Hill to cover the constantly changing, fully public, ludicrous, horrifying, astounding, comical, fascinating, and, I would argue, far more important Annua ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Harry Reid, Missouri River, New Mexico, politics, Rio Grande River, wildlife (all these topics)

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