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  1. “We are now a nation governed not by leaders, but by increasingly cartoonish simulations animated more by vanity than virtue, more by stagecraft than statecraft. And there is no better mascot for this decline and rot than Vice President J.D. Vance, the Appalachian Horatio Alger turned Beltway embarrassment.

    “In his latest escapade, Vance demanded river waters rise in homage to his kayak.”

    #vance #JDVance #kayak #Corruption #littlemiamiriver #armycorpsofengineers

    open.substack.com/pub/blueamp/

  2. #JDVance faces MASSIVE backlash after his absurd, wasteful and ecosystem-threatening demand to have the #ArmyCorpsofEngineers redirect dam water to raise water levels of the #LittleMiamiRiver in #Ohio so he could KAYAK down it for his BIRTHDAY! - #TheDamageReport youtu.be/wflHIPeS5Bw?...

    JD Vance SINKS As Disastrous K...

  3. @cookiesinheaven Thank you for posting about water in the Central Valley "Water managers said they got about an hour’s warning from the Army Corp’s Sacramento office to expect the Tule and Kaweah rivers to be at “channel capacity” by Thursday night. " #California #Agriculture #ArmyCorpsofEngineers #UnintendedConsequences

  4. PODCAST: Key Biscayne’s sea level rise cost is $250 - $300 million, manager says. :

    Nov. 8th, Williamson is hosting a town hall with top engineers from the project to address public questions about the projects, which are under scrutiny after the price of the flood control project alone came in at $310 million in August. 
    #AECOM #ArmyCorpsofEngineers #AT&ampT #BearCutBridge #BigDig

    kbindependent.org/2023/11/05/p

  5. Key Biscayne blazes trail for County’s Back Bay storm surge study :

    “The work at the Village of Key Biscayne is really a microcosm of what we’ve been talking about across the entire landscape,” said Jim Murley, the chief resilience officer for Miami-Dade County.
    #ArmyCorpsofEngineers #AtlanticOcean #BackBayStudy #coastalprotection #DaniellaLevineCava #dunes #HurrianeIan #Hurricane #man

    kbindependent.org/2023/08/25/k

  6. Fish farming: Virginia Key scientists aim to put U.S. aquaculture on top :

    Aquaculture is one of the fast growing industries worldwide, he said. And there is a reason for that: overfishing that has left global fisheries stagnant or in decline.
    #acquaculture #ArmyCorpsofEngineers #fishfarm #hatchery #JohnStieglitz #MiamiAquaCulture #NOAA #Ocean #overfishing #RosenstielSchool #science #se

    kbindependent.org/2023/07/03/f

  7. @drahardja Before Before the #NationalEnvironmentalPolicyAct of 1970 (#NEPA) and the #ResourceConservationAndRecoveryAct of 1976 (#RCRA), US oversight of wastes was in the hands of the #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers & the US Public Health Service (#USPHS). The PHS was so weak that the waste industry didn’t bother to corrupt it, unlike some of their successors. They were concerned about unsafe #Garbage and #Sewage disposal practices and their impacts on waters and health. They did a study. 1/4

  8. A #NativeAmerican #tribe is about to put #solarpanels over its #canals
    The Gila River Indian Community signed a project partnership agreement with #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers to put #solar panels over its canals. The pilot is part of a broader effort by the Biden administration and the Bureau of Reclamation to implement solutions for the drought crisis that’s threatening the Colorado River Basin. The objective is to create clean energy and conserve water in the Tribe’s canal.
    electrek.co/2023/11/21/indian-

  9. Your tax dollars at play: the 2023 #ArmyCorpsofEngineers, #Portland District #cat #calendar. (Click on the "View" button at the top right to see the whole calendar in all its majesty.)

    usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digit

  10. The Army Corps of Engineers puts out an annual calendar to highlight their projects, and this year they added giant cats. WINNER! #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers #CatsCatsCats

    goodnewsnetwork.org/army-corps

  11. @drahardja Before Before the #NationalEnvironmentalPolicyAct of 1970 (#NEPA) and the #ResourceConservationAndRecoveryAct of 1976 (#RCRA), US oversight of wastes was in the hands of the #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers & the US Public Health Service (#USPHS). The PHS was so weak that the waste industry didn’t bother to corrupt it, unlike some of their successors. They were concerned about unsafe #Garbage and #Sewage disposal practices and their impacts on waters and health. They did a study. 1/4

  12. @drahardja Before Before the #NationalEnvironmentalPolicyAct of 1970 (#NEPA) and the #ResourceConservationAndRecoveryAct of 1976 (#RCRA), US oversight of wastes was in the hands of the #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers & the US Public Health Service (#USPHS). The PHS was so weak that the waste industry didn’t bother to corrupt it, unlike some of their successors. They were concerned about unsafe #Garbage and #Sewage disposal practices and their impacts on waters and health. They did a study. 1/4

  13. @drahardja Before Before the #NationalEnvironmentalPolicyAct of 1970 (#NEPA) and the #ResourceConservationAndRecoveryAct of 1976 (#RCRA), US oversight of wastes was in the hands of the #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers & the US Public Health Service (#USPHS). The PHS was so weak that the waste industry didn’t bother to corrupt it, unlike some of their successors. They were concerned about unsafe #Garbage and #Sewage disposal practices and their impacts on waters and health. They did a study. 1/4

  14. @drahardja Before Before the #NationalEnvironmentalPolicyAct of 1970 (#NEPA) and the #ResourceConservationAndRecoveryAct of 1976 (#RCRA), US oversight of wastes was in the hands of the #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers & the US Public Health Service (#USPHS). The PHS was so weak that the waste industry didn’t bother to corrupt it, unlike some of their successors. They were concerned about unsafe #Garbage and #Sewage disposal practices and their impacts on waters and health. They did a study. 1/4

  15. PODCAST: Key Biscayne’s sea level rise cost is $250 - $300 million, manager says. :

    Nov. 8th, Williamson is hosting a town hall with top engineers from the project to address public questions about the projects, which are under scrutiny after the price of the flood control project alone came in at $310 million in August. 
    #AECOM #ArmyCorpsofEngineers #AT&ampT #BearCutBridge #BigDig

    kbindependent.org/2023/11/05/p