BP Commission Highlights Need for 8/29 Commission

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Nearly five years later still no levee commission for New Orleans It’s commendable that President Barack Obama has formed an independent commission to look at the root causes of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the proper process for combating such catastrophes in the future. The hearings began in New Orleans […]

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Story about Army Corps caught harassing citizens online possibly one of the Year’s Most Censored

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

The Pentagon’s investigation of vicious comments by employees at the Army Corps of Engineers posted on Levees.org’s blog has been accepted for consideration as one of the Top 25 Most Censored Stories of the Year. Reporter Mark Schleifstein’s story in the New Orleans Times Picayune will now go to voters and could be selected for […]

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Corps apologist now spinning for BP, too

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

An article in the Dallas Morning News today quotes a member of the peer review team that studied the Corps of Engineers’ levee failures in 2005. The independence of the team assembled by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) was challenged so vigorously that it prompted an investigation which resulted in stern criticism of […]

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