Levees.org prepares Counter to Corps of Engineers PR campaign
The US Army Corps of Engineers and the engineering community are ramping up their campaigns to shift blame for the metro New Orleans flooding away from themselves and onto the citizens/victims. Actual blame for the catastrophic flooding during Katrina lies at the feet of the Corps of Engineers because the agency, by federal law, is […]
Critics call for an ASCE ethics policy
Thank you Cain Burdeau of the Associated Press. A long awaited report putting the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) under “the ethics microscope” might nearly have gone unnoticed if not for you. The Boehlert Report was released at the height of Hurricane Ike on a Friday afternoon at 5pm, likely the worst moment possible […]
