Levees

Focus on Coastal Restoration Not Retreat, Louisiana's Senator Landrieu Says

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Greater New Orleans Foundation, RESTORE Act, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, The Idea Village, Levees, Netherlands, Natural Resource Damage Assessment, Tierra Resources, Clean Water Act, Offshore Drilling, U.S. Senate, Baton Rouge Area Foundation, Carbon Credits, The Water Institute of the Gulf, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, St. Charles Parish, Bp Spill, Mississippi River, Seafood, Green News
Susan Buchanan

Louisiana needs to get smart quickly about coastal restoration, U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu said in her hometown of New Orleans last week.

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Views Collide At Meeting On Louisiana's Coastal Plan

Susan Buchanan | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: New Orleans, Bp, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, Morgan City, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, Jefferson Parish, Levees, Natural Resource Damage Assessment, Clean Water Act, Gulf Restoration Network, U.S. Army Corps, Dredging, Wetlands, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fisheries, Sierra Club, Mississippi River, Seafood, Green News
Susan Buchanan

A New Orleans open house held by Louisiana's coastal restoration authority last week on a draft of the state's 2012 Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast drew mixed, earnest and sometimes vehement comments.

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Houma Tribe Wants Storm Protection For Its Coastal Towns

Susan Buchanan | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Congress, Gulf of Mexico, Wetlands, Flooding, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, Bp Spill, Green News
Susan Buchanan

The United Houma Nation, with its family tree firmly planted in Louisiana's coastal parishes for the last 300 years, doesn't want to see its centers drown as the wetlands shrink.

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Can We Handle Nature's New Norm? (Part 2)

William S. Becker | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Water Supplies, Floods, Fema, Hurricanes, Natural Disasters, Heat Waves, Energy Production, Levees, Urban Heat Islands, Army Corps of Engineers, Coal, Tornados, Rivers, Floodplains, Dams, Insurance, Oil, Wetlands, Climate Change, Nuclear Power, Wild Fires, Coastal Wetlands, Risk, Green News
William S. Becker

Whether or not we are ready to conclude that today's extreme weather events are linked to global climate change, it would be utterly irresponsible for us to ignore the possibility.

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"Katrina" Plus Six

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.28.2011

Read More: Katrina, New Orleans, Academic Freedom, Levees, Army Corps of Engineers, Chernobyl, Hurricane Katrina, Green News
Harry Shearer

What most people think they know is that, post-Katrina, "the levees have been fixed." And that could be said to be true. To get Clintonian for a moment, it all depends on what your definition of "fixed" is.

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Missouri Levee Exploded By U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers

AP | By JIM SUHR and JIM SALTER | Posted 07.02.2011

Read More: Floods, Birds-Points-Levee, Ohio River, Cairo Illinois Flooding, Cairo Illinois, Flooding, Levees, US Army Corps of Engineers, Michael-Walsh, Mississippi River, Louisiana, Mississippi County, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Extreme Weather, Chicago News

WYATT, Mo. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers exploded a large section of a Mississippi River levee Monday in a desperate attempt to protect an Illin...

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'THE TOWN'S GONE'

AP | By ANDREW DeMILLO and NOMAAN MERCHANT | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Floods, Arkansas, Severe Weather, Ohio River, Vilonia, Wisconsin, Flooding, Levees, Little Rock-Arkansas, Sandbags Flooding, Storms, Green News, Little Rock, Vilonia Arkansas, Extreme Weather, Tornado, Green News

VILONIA, Ark. -- Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe says rescuers have accounted for everyone who lives in the tornado-struck town of Vilonia and that the death...

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Missouri Levees Ready To Burst From Intense Rain

AP | By JIM SALTER | Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Arkansas, Floods, Severe Weather, Wisconsin, Vilonia, Ohio River, Natural Disasters, Black River Coliseum, Missouri Levee, Flooding, Levees, Little Rock-Arkansas, Poplar-Bluff, Texas, Mississippi River, Sandbags Flooding, Little Rock, Poplar Bluff Missouri, Storms, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Vilonia Arkansas, Tornado, Extreme Weather, Black-River, Ohio River Valley, Green News

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A levee protecting the southeast Missouri town of Poplar Bluff held overnight but officials are keeping a wary eye as waters from...

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Before the Flood, More New Orleans Residents Had Flood Insurance Than the Rest of the Nation

Sandy Rosenthal | Posted 06.10.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Flood Insurance, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, New Orleans Levees, New Orleans Flood Insurance, Green News
Sandy Rosenthal

In the weeks after the levee system failed in New Orleans, public officials scolded the vast majority of the city's residents for not having flood insurance. It turns up they were wrong.

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Thankful for the Truth-Tellers

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Maria-Garzino, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Thanksgiving 2010, Bob Bea, Ivor Van Heerden, Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News
Harry Shearer

My gratitude this season is directed at three people I've met who have had the extraordinary courage to find out the truth, tell it to the public, and bear the discouraging consequences.

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Coal Ash Threatens Water From Baton Rouge Southwards

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, New Orleans, Arsenic, Baton Rouge, Mississippi River, Health, Selenium, Levees, Drinking Water, Sierra Club, US Army Corps of Engineers, Coal, Power Plants, NRG Energy, Green News
Susan Buchanan

Louisiana residents may think coal ash is for Appalachia to fret about. But ash from a coal-fueled power plant north of Baton Rouge is threatening drinking water along the Mississippi River.

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Chicken Feed for Brains?

Melissa Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicken Feed for Brains, Superbowl Champs, New Orleans Saints Fans, Levee Breech, Dan Hampton, Drew Brees, 34 Ways Foundation, Tailgate and Party With a Purpose, New Orleans Saints, Minnesota Vikings, Fox, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Mike Mckenzie, Chirs Meyers, Pro Football Weekly, Sports News
Melissa Smith

Dan, didn't your mama raise you better than to say something that stupid before television audience, or ANY audience?

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Q&A With Harry Shearer: Voice of The Simpsons Speaking Up for New Orleans

Joshua Kors | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Dr. Bob Bea, John McCain, Lindsay Lohan, Robert Polidori, Le Show, Harry Shearer, Levees, Army Corps of Engineers, The Simpsons, Barack Obama, Frank Relle, Cnn, Silent Debates, The Big Uneasy, Phil Hendrie, Iraq War, Glenn Beck, Hurricane Katrina, Hillary Clinton, U.S. Army, Justin Bieber, Entertainment News
Joshua Kors

Shearer spoke with me about his movie,The Big Uneasy, a look at how New Orleans flooded, and the anger stirred by media that came to his new hometown but overlooked the Army Corps' role in flooding it.

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Nearly Five Years Later Still No Levee Commission, Why?

Sandy Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BP Oil Disaster, John Barry, Levees, Army Corps of Engineers, Steve Ellis, 8/29 Investigation, Barack Obama, New Orleans, Katrina, Politics News
Sandy Rosenthal

Levees.org continues to demand the 8/29 Investigation Act, a truly independent bipartisan investigation of the flood protection failures during Katrina.

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Recent Ruling Shows True Tragedy of Katrina was Federal Government's Creation of the Disaster Itself

Sandy Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans Levees, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Army Corps of Engineers, US Army Corps of Engineers, Judge Stanwood Duval, Politics News
Sandy Rosenthal

The majority of Americans live in counties protected by levees, and the most important ones are built by the US Army Corps of Engineers, whose failure in Louisiana was presumably not an isolated event.

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BP Engineers and Uncle Sammy Provide Double Whammy for Louisiana

Sandy Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Bp, Mark Hafle, Dead Pelicans, Levees, Army Corps of Engineers, Robert Bea, Kevin Brady, Politics News
Sandy Rosenthal

We think it's laudable that the White House is rapidly conducting investigations into the root cause of the BP well failure. 

But the White House exhibited paralysis after the spectacular engineering failure that flooded 80% of New Orleans.

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Pilgrim's Progress: 10 Reasons to be Thankful for New Orleans

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Hbo, New Orleans, Brad Pitt, Kermit Ruffins, Sandra Bullock, Rebirth, Thanksgiving, Harry Shearer, Matt Damon, Dr. John, Levees, Nonprofits, Charity, Harry Connick Jr., R.E.M., Branford Marsalis, Nomrf, Sustainability, Bobby Jindal, Neil Abramson, Joseph Cao, The Princess & the Frog, Healthy Living News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

I was taken aback when a CNN commentator conjectured that New Orleans residents are now looking for their "Pound of flesh." Our diaspora is not Shakespeare's Shylock character.

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A Top Story of the Decade Deserves Accurate Coverage

Sandy Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Katrina, New Orleans, Levees, John Hill, Decade, Army Corps of Engineers, Civil Engineers, Politics News
Sandy Rosenthal

Today, New Years Day, many articles are covering the most memorable events of the decade. Naturally, they all include the metro New Orleans flood.

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US Army Corps can't stop floods in New Orleans

Paul Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Floods, Levees, Louisiana, Army Corps of Engineers, Green News
Paul Brown

Lt. General Robert Van Antwerp, Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers would not answer my question "Should New Orleans be abandoned?" But the Gene...

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The Need for Enemies

Lawrence E. Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, National Academy of Sciences, Power Grid, Defense, Solar, Enemies, Katrina, Jobs, Obama, Levees, Electromagnetic Pulse, 2012, Politics News
Lawrence E. Joseph

What is it about our need for enemies? Has the American consciousness been shaped, even warped, by decades of fighting off the Nazis, the Communists, and now, Muslim extremists?

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Judge: Hurricane Katrina Flooding Was Caused By Army Corps Of Engineers' Negligence

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Negligence, New Orleans, Ninth Ward, Bobby Jindal, Hurricane Katrina, Kathleen Blanco, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, Levees, Nagin, Cause of Katrina, Hurricane, Katrina Flooding, Katrina Memorial, Louisiana, Ray Nagin, Army Corps of Engineers, Road Home, What Caused Hurrican Katrina Flooding, 9th Ward, Katrina Recovery, Justice, National Government, Katrina Court Case, Mr-Go, Mrgo, Home News

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive...

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New Study: Sound Levees Pay for Themselves

Sandy Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Mark Schleifstein, Army Corps of Engineers, Levees, Ezra Boyd, Fema, Politics News
Sandy Rosenthal



The non partisan group Levees.org has just released new data that squarely addresses the question of whether metro New Orleans should be rebuilt...

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Waste in Your Levee? Don't Blame the Corps

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Levees, US Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Crazy how accountability works at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Other than construction waste in the levees, how many other such mistakes have gone undiscovered?

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Economic Hit Men and the Next Drowning of New Orleans

Greg Palast | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, New Orleans, Greg Palast, Environment, Oil, America's Wetland, Pipelines, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Chevron, Lousiana State University, Ivor Van Heerden, Katrina Anniversary, Shell, Politics News
Greg Palast

Ivor van Heerden is the professor who warned the levees of New Orleans were ready to blow -- months and years before Katrina did the job. For being right, he was rewarded with ... getting fired.

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Largest Levee-Busts in Louisiana

NYT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Floods, Hurricane, New Orleans, Louisiana, Swamp Land, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Green News

In what experts are calling the biggest levee-busting operation ever in North America, the brothers plan to return the muddy river to its ancient floo...

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