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Wetlands Articles  | | Article: | | | | Published: | 4/1/2008 by Heartland Institute (James M. Taylor) | | | Submitted by: | Frank K 86 days ago | | | Categories: | Habitats & Wetlands |
| Article Details: The U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are squaring off over an Army Corps proposal to seasonally drain 67,000 acres of wetlands adjacent to the lower Mississippi River. The Army Corps wants to spend $220 million to build a pumping station in the Yazoo River Basin arguing that the project is necessary to protect agricultural lands and approximately 1,000 homes from potential flooding. | |
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|  | | Article: | | | | Published: | 8/5/2007 by Time Magazine (Michael Grunwald) | | | Submitted by: | Frank K 86 days ago | | | Categories: | Habitats & Wetlands |
| Article Details: The most important thing to remember about the drowning of New Orleans is that it wasn't a natural disaster. It was a man-made disaster, created by lousy engineering, misplaced priorities and pork-barrel politics. The real culprit was the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which bungled the levees that formed the city's man-made defenses and ravaged the wetlands that once formed its natural defenses. | |
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|  | | Article: | | | | Published: | 10/19/2006 by MSNBC (Mike Stuckey) | | | Submitted by: | Frank K 86 days ago | | | Categories: | Habitats & Wetlands |
| Article Details: Federal wetlands regulators have dropped a bombshell on environmentalists with a little-publicized proposal to relax restrictions on filling in certain wetlands along the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast to speed recovery from Hurricane Katrina. “It’s unethical, illegal, immoral, unsustainable and they’re simply doing it to make the fat cats richer faster,”said Derrick Evans, of a Gulfport, Miss., community group. | |
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