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USACE Partnering at its best: Unfortunately EMIP entered into a contract with the Fort Wort District in 2009 ( W9126G-09-P-0360).&nbsp; After a lot of contract disputes in which the USACE issued DrChecks comments above and beyond contract specs and continued to deny approval of the SWPPP and Design Plan submitted, they in my opinion unfairly and improperly "Terminated for Cause".&nbsp; EMIP

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Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents’ decades-old debts Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post - Mary Grice of Takoma Park, MD, talks with her attorney Robert Vogel, at Vogel's home in Rockville Maryland, April 5, 2014. By Marc Fisher, Published: April&nbsp;10 E-mail the writer A few weeks ago, with no notice,

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Global warming dials up our risks, UN report says YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — If the world doesn't cut pollution of heat-trapping gases, the already noticeable harms of global warming could spiral "out of control," the head of a United Nations scientific panel warned Monday. And he's not alone. The Obama White House says it is taking this new report

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LIVE GREEN OR DIE was the headline splashed across a recent copy of Business Week magazine. The related article was all about General Motors recent attempt to come to grips with reality. While GM has spent the last few years churning out Hummers, other car companies like Toyota, Ford and Chrysler have been developing hybrids and electric cars. With Congress tightening fuel economy regulations and

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Currently, there are more than 37,000 river restoration projects ongoing across the United States. Over $1 billion is spent annually to help combat the years of abuse that our country's rivers have endured. Water pollution, overconsumption, development and deforestation are just a few of the things that have led to a serious need to nurse our river systems back to health.An integral part of

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With gas prices soaring in the direction of $4.00 per gallon, wouldn't everyone love a car that gets 2,843 mpg? Well, students from Mater Dei High School of Evansville, IN have one. Their three-wheeled, combustion-engine vehicle won the grand prize and set a new mileage record at the 2008 Shell Eco-marathon Americas held at the California Speedway in Fontana, CA. The kids from Mater Dei beat

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The Blue Green Alliance is a group that was formed by the United Steelworkers union and the Sierra Club in 2006 . The group's focus is promoting job creation through the development of cleaner, renewable energy sources. They see these "green" jobs as a way to revitalize the manufacturing industry with an anticipated 850,000 new jobs like the ones created by Vestas, the world's largest

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The United States ranked 39th out of 149 countries on an environmental performance list which evaluates sanitation, greenhouse gas emissions, agricultural policies, air pollution and 20 other measures. The U.S. scored an 81 out of a possible 100. The four countries at the top of the list were Switzerland, Sweden, Norway and Finland, which received scores of 87 or higher. Switzerland's high scores

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Some of Ronald Reagan's more memorable quotes:"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.""I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.""The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination

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The Gulf of Mexico at the mouth of the Mississippi River has a dead zone of approximately 975 square miles. That would cover 80% of the state of Rhode Island. This dead zone is an area of low-oxygen water created by extreme amounts of nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen. These nutrients typically come from fertilizers applied to farm fields and lawns which are then washed into the

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Dr. Gary Shaffer, an environmental scientist at Southeastern Louisiana University, is working toward restoring Louisiana's wetlands...using sewage. Sewage from the city of Hammond is treated and then piped seven miles to an area known as 4-Mile Marsh. The sewage effluent is clean, but still high in nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen. The wastewater is released into the marsh where cypress

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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. Two and a half years later, have we learned any lessons? Hopefully, the next administration will promote the restoration of the wetlands to help prevent this from happening again.

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Green was the color for 2007. Consumers converted to compact florescent lightbulbs and hybrid cars, corporate america reduced greenhouse gas emissions before legislation required reductions and politicians rallied around solutions to global warming. Green even moved into the world of rock with Al Gore's first ever Live Earth concert intended to raise awareness of environmental issues. The

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The Ugandan government is attempting to give 17,500 acres of rainforest the axe. Literally. They intend to revoke the protected status of a portion of the Mabira Forest and give the land to a sugar cane company for clearing. Only about 15% of Uganda's land is still forested and approximately 2% of those forests are lost each year to clearing for farming and cattle. The forests mean life to the

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A rebuilding project in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward is focusing on green techniques. Global Green USA is the environmental group building the project, which is being largely funded by the Home Depot Foundation. The project consists of five shotgun style homes and an 18-unit housing complex that will utilize 40% less energy than traditional buildings. Project sponsors and supporters hope that

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You can't fight Mother Nature. For years, people have tried to make nature conform to their needs and desires; often times with disasterous consequences. Nowhere is this mindset more evident than in rivers and streams. People have moved, straightened, widened, deepened and bound waterways for a multitude of reasons, but to prevent flooding has always been near the top of the list. They seem to

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Some people have always known that trees have value, but now a dollar value has been put on them.Now, for the first time, the [New York City] Parks Department can actually translate the value of the city’s trees into real dollars and cents. And as expected, it’s a big number.Step 1 was a tree census, a two-year process that sent more than 1,000 volunteers to count every tree on every street in

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Approximately 30,000 Amazonian Indians and settlers are suing Chevron Corp. for failing to clean up billions of gallons of wastewater in Ecuador. Texaco Petroleum Co., which merged with Chevron in 2001, spent 30 years drilling for oil and dumping more than 18 billion gallons of oily wastewater in the rainforest.The Indians are claiming that the oil company caused 30 times more damage than the

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The US Army Corps of Engineers at Allatoona Lake has revived a natural ecosystem that was once native to the land surrounding the lake. Due to farming on the land prior to creation of the lake, the Longleaf pine ecosystem was transformed to a forest of more aggressive Loblolly and Virginia pines. Longleaf pine offers more benefits to wildlife and, in fact, offers such diversity that it serves as

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Happy Earth Day!Did you do anything green today?

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Delta Airlines joins the numerous companies that are going green. Delta's Force for Global Good program allows customers to add a donation to any ticket purchase that will fund tree planting projects in managed forests around the world to offset carbon emissions. 100 percent of donations will be disbursed to the Conservation Fund's Carbon Sequestration Program. To date, the Conservation Fund has

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Native villagers in northern Canada and the Arctic are receiving visitors they've never seen before. Warmer temperatures and warmer waters have sent animals such as finches, robins and dolphins into places where they have no name. This warmer atmosphere has also meant ice freezes later and thinner, forcing villagers to travel further to hunting grounds they once accessed by ice.Hunting has also

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Durango, Colorado city government has signed a contract to convert from 10% to 100% wind-generated power. Supplying energy from wind turbines will come at a yearly additional cost, which should be offset by energy efficiency credits and customers' agreement to pay an additional $1.25 per 100 kilowatt-hours per month.

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Valley Park, MissouriThis narrow, high velocity stream was experiencing severe erosion. Portions of the bank were lined with riprap for protection. Other portions of the bank were lined with sandbags filled with air-pruned grasses interspersed with air-pruned trees. The sandbags hold soils in place long enough for the grass and tree root systems to become established. Then, air-pruned root

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Saturday night was the night that the lights went out in Sydney. At 7:30, homes, businesses and even famous skyline landmarks like the Sydney Opera House went dark for one hour to raise awareness about global warming and the steps that can be taken to help. Australia, with it's 21 million residents, is ranked the world's number 1 greenhouse gas emitter per capita.Earth Hour was organized by

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