'Water Is Life': Unexpected Rainfall Revives Iraq's Historic Marshlands
"This time last year, most of Iraq’s historic marshlands were dry, desiccated by upstream damming and a chronic lack of rainfall."
Source: Reuters, 04/25/2019
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Cities Like Detroit Are Looking To Green Stormwater Infrastructure
"With climate change bringing more intense storms, urban areas are looking for better ways to manage runoff."
Source: Ensia, 04/22/2019
15 AGs Slam Trump Move To Limit Federal Authority Under Clean Water Act
"Attorneys general from 14 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday vehemently opposed the Trump administration’s proposal to roll back a regulation known as Waters of the United States, a move they said would end federal oversight of 15 percent of streams and more than half of the nation’s wetlands."
Source: Washington Post, 04/17/2019
"Trump EPA Weighs Reviving Massive Mississippi Flood Project"
"As Mississippi’s governor toured massive flooding in the state, the Trump administration said Wednesday that it is giving another look to a long-dead flood control and drainage project in the Mississippi Delta that had been killed by the George W. Bush administration because of its potential impact on wetlands and wildlife."
Source: AP, 04/08/2019
Corps Studies Improving New Orleans Levees To Keep Pace With Hurricanes
"The Army Corps of Engineers is embarking on studies of potential improvements to the east bank and West Bank hurricane levee systems because portions of the post-Katrina levee system are likely to be inadequate to reduce risk from stormwater surges created by a so-called 100-year storm as early as 2023."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 04/04/2019
"Trump Vows Funding For Great Lakes Program He Just Proposed To Gut"
"President Donald Trump attempted to position himself as a hero to Michigan voters as he vowed to allocate funds for a Great Lakes restoration program — just days after he called for a 90% cut to the project in his federal budget proposal."
Source: HuffPost, 04/02/2019
"New Orleans Files Wetland Damage Suit Against Oil, Gas Companies"
"New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell filed a lawsuit Friday (March 29) against Entergy New Orleans, Chevron U.S.A. Inc, ExxonMobil Pipeline Company and eight other oil and gas companies, demanding they repair damage caused by exploration, production and pipeline construction activities to wetlands along the city’s eastern edges."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 04/01/2019
"Trump's WOTUS: Clear As Mud, Scientists Say"
"The Trump administration's stated goal for a rule defining which wetlands and waterways get Clean Water Act protection: Write a simple regulation that landowners can understand. ... But scientists who specialize in the study of wetlands and waterways say it's not that simple."
Source: Greenwire, 02/19/2019
"Clean Water Act: A Hunter's View: No Such Thing As An Isolated Wetland"
To a duck hunter in the marshes of southeast Louisiana, what happens in the prairie potholes of the upper Midwest makes all the difference. The Trump administration wants to end protections for such isolated wetlands."
Source: Greenwire, 01/31/2019
Florida: Republican 'Green Governor' Seeks To Reverse Scott's Legacy
"Ron DeSantis has broken with fellow Republican Rick Scott in seeking to oust officials who authorised controversial land deal".
Source: Guardian, 01/28/2019
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