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Opinion: In Government, You Fail Up

(July 23) -- Want to know why the federal government often seems so inept? Maybe it's because the one sure-fire way to get a bigger budget for your agency is to fail spectacularly. Consider this revealing story, buried at the end of the part one of The Washington Post's massive investigative series this week on the post...

Great Lakes States Sue to Keep Monster Fish at Bay

(July 19) -- Five Great Lakes states are suing Chicago's water department and the Army Corps of Engineers in an effort to keep the invasive Asian carp out of Lake Michigan and protect the Great Lakes from the hungry species. The federal lawsuit, filed today in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois,...

Oil Fouls New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain

(July 7) -- Oil seeping into New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain from the Gulf of Mexico spill is threatening the pristine estuary's fragile ecosystem less than 20 years after what experts describe as a "dramatic turnabout" in its pollution levels. The fact that oil has turned up in the lake, a 630-square-mile inland bay...

Background on Army Corps of Engineers

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE, also sometimes shortened to CoE) is a federal agency and a major Army command made up of some 38,000 civilian and military personnel, making it the world's largest public engineering, design and construction management agency.

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