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THE YAZOO PUMPS AND THE CORPS’ DIZZYING RESPONSE

Our members who took action on the recent Yazoo Pumps alert have all received a surprise in the mail. It seems that the Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg is sending a response letter to everyone who took action, stating that “project opponents” have been publishing misleading information about the project, and that the Yazoo […]

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MRGO – BACK IN THE NEWS

Our favorite testimony to the need for NEPA (the National Environmental Policy Act) and Army Corps reform, the Mississippi River – Gulf Outlet, is back in the news today, with an editorial in the Times-Picayune urging quick implementation of the 170 day closure plan. We wholey concur, though we think the plan needs to do

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DUMP THE PUMPS

The New York Times editorial staff put it best when they wrote “like an indestructible ghoul in a low-grade horror flick, the Yazoo Pumps are rising again from the bureaucratic crypt.” First proposed in 1941, the Yazoo Pumps are nothing short of a reoccurring nightmare. This World War II era project would, according to the

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