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• Heart of a Military Woman: A Book of Tributes

  
  Heart Book Series — Authority: 91
  Heart of a Military Woman: A Book of Tributes INTRODUCTION TO THE HEART OF A MILITARY WOMAN BOOK When I sit and think about all the military influences in my own life today, I don’t have to look very far. I reflect first on my immediate family tree. My father, Hiram Roush, served in the Army ...
  18 hours ago

• Veterans Day: Bless You!

  
  Heart Book Series — Authority: 91
  Veterans Day: Bless You! Today is Veterans Day. A day we most reverently thank those who have served our country with their time, their energy, and their lives. Fighting for our freedoms, and often at high cost, and life. Even though we have different words for the diagnosis, and different treatments for the ...
  18 hours ago

• Work Lessens Flood Risk in Washington

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  However, repairs at a flood-control reservoir have not eliminated the risk of flooding this winter in the Green River Valley near Seattle, the Army Corps of Engineers said.
  5 days ago

• Streaming in from the blogosphere

  
  L.A. Creek Freak — Authority: 415
  A couple of updates from the blogosphere: Meredith McKenzie posts an update at ArroyoLover from two meetings pertinent to the Arroyo Seco:  news of Congressional funding for the Army Corps feasibility study and a report on the Station Fire damage within the Arroyo.  The Army Corps study follows up on several ...
  5 days ago

• $1 billion New Orleans barrier is rising

  
  Home & living - home-living.marc8.com — Authority: 148
  Mindful that the suburban West Bank of New Orleans is primed for growth, the Army Corps of Engineers is launching a $1 billion effort to keep the next storm at bay. read more
  1 week ago

• Delaware Business Leaders Lend Support to Deepening Project

  
  Import Industry News — Authority: 147
  The proposal to deepen the Delaware River gained the public backing of two major business groups in Delaware this week when the presidents of the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce ( view letter ) and the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce ( view letter ) wrote letters in support of the project to Delaware Governor ...
  2 weeks ago

• Consumers Energy plans to build new coal plant on wetlands, groups warn

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 669
  Consumers Energy Karn Weadock coal plant (Photo courtesy of Hampton Township) A coalition of environmental groups is asking state and federal regulators to take a careful look at the potential wetlands impact of a coal-fired power plant planned by Consumers Energy along Saginaw Bay. Consumers Energy has proposed ...
  2 weeks ago

• How the Army Corps of Engineers Stays in Business

  
  Delaware Liberal — Authority: 605
  It comes up with loony projects, has them embraced by pork-loving congress critters, develops phony economic benefits analysis, and then plays hardball, using people like Pennsylvania’s amoral governor as its cheerleaders. Michael Grunwald wrote a brilliant 5-piece series for the Washington Post back in 2000 ...
  2 weeks ago

• AG Biden vs. The Army Corps of Engineers?

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 144
  WDEL reports ~ Despite the lack of required permits, the Army Corps of Engineers plans to begin dredging in the Delaware River. DNREC says they recently denied the Corps first application because the proposed project has changed significantly since the initial application was submitted in 2001. ...
  2 weeks ago

• B.R. shows construction edge over N.O. again

  
  The CityBusiness Blog — Authority: 425
  By Christian Moises, News Editor Once again, Baton Rouge’s construction industry and the employment that comes from it is being spotlighted. A BusinessWeek online article published Thursday listed Baton Rouge as the sixth strongest economy nationwide. The publication used data and analysis from the Brookings ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quote of the week

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 127
  This is from a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on coal mininig by environment reporter Don Hopey: “A little more than half the electricity produced in Pennsylvania comes from burning coal, but the pollution emissions from the state’s coal plants are significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions that ...
  2 weeks ago

• junk in the harbor

  
  Bowsprite: A New York Harbor Sketchbook — Authority: 405
  12:53pm, this just in over VHF ch13: Tug: “To the southbound Army Corps Of Engineers vessel.” ACOE vessel responded (didn’t get the name.) Tug: “About a mile south of you, by Ellis Island, there’s a desk.” ACOE: “A desk? Tug: “Yes, a desk…and some telephone poles.” ACOE: “OK, thank you.”
  3 weeks ago

• Jamaica Bay marshes to be restored

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 583
  From the NY Post : Jamaica Bay’s marshlands will soon see a bit more green than usual — in the form of a multi-million dollar restoration project, officials announced last week. The United States Army Corps of Engineers announced the signing of a pact with a series of agencies to help restore the dwindling ...
  3 weeks ago

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District PUBLIC NOTICE No. (09092-GF)

  
  KFFB 106.1 FM -- Arkansas Radio -- Online Radio--Arkansas Politics — Authority: 144
  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District PUBLIC NOTICE No. (09092-GF) Applicant:  US Army Corps of Engineers- Little Rock District Regulatory Project Name:  The consideration of a time extension for a General Permit involving the installation of water intakes, pumps, and connecting water pipelines. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Oak Ridge, TN: Developed the Atomic Bomb and Now Stopping Child Predators

  
  IT DAWNED ON ME — Authority: 106
  What was rolling farm land in east Tennessee, the city now known as Oak Ridge was quickly transformed by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1942 to become one of the four places that worked on the Manhattan Project and birthed the atomic bomb. Because of the plentiful and cheap hydroelectric power provided through the ...
  3 weeks ago

• EPA Takes First Step Toward Rare Veto of Mountaintop Mining Permit

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 619
  The EPA put its promise to protect mountain streams into action today, taking a rare first step toward vetoing a permit for the largest mountaintop mining operation in Appalachia. The agency has used that authority only 12 times since the Clean Water Act was enacted in 1972. And it has never vetoed a water permit ...
  3 weeks ago

• Biologists Fight Erosion in Jamaica Bay by John Lauinger - NY Daily News

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 506
  Read original... Biologist Melissa Alvarez examines clumps of salt marsh grasses on Elder’s Point East in Jamaica Bay. Showalter - News The whipping winds of Jamaica Bay sway the chest-high grasses of Elders Point East, a salt marsh island full of marine life. This is the new hope for the bays ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Orleans on MSNBC

  
  The Wayward Episcopalian — Authority: 120
  It wasnt the climate change-caused storm, it was the faulty levees and the devestation of the wetlands that slammed New Orleans. Also, Chris Matthews seems to have a habit of missing the point, but whatever.
  4 weeks ago

• Largest Defense Solar Facility May Get Bigger

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 625
  Previously announced as having 500 megawatts in capacity, the Fort Irwin solar facility may end up double that size.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers selected Clark Energy Group, an affiliate of Clark Realty Capital, to develop the solar power project in the Department of Defense at Fort Irwin, which is in California. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Biologists fight erosion in Jamaica Bay

  
  Going Coastal — Authority: 130
  The whipping winds of Jamaica Bay sway the chest-high grasses of Elder’s Point East, a salt marsh island full of marine life.This is the new hope for the bay’s future.The island’s picturesque shores are covered in clam shells and frequented by sea gulls, but its current form is almost entirely manmade – just ...
  4 weeks ago

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