Posts by Tag: new orleans
US Government Loses First Climate Disaster Lawsuit
Posted on Dec 02, 2009 by Susan Kraemer.
In a case that is possibly precedent-setting, the US Government has just lost a landmark disaster-negligence lawsuit. The Army Corps of Engineers was sued for negligence in Hurricane Katrina flood protection in New Orleans… and lost.
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Can the World’s Largest Water Pump Stop New Orleans From Getting Pummeled by Hurricanes?
Posted on Aug 24, 2009 by Ariel Schwartz.
Anyone who witnessed the horror of Hurricane Katrina knows that New Orleans could use some serious protection from the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain. The levees currently installed in the city are a joke, but the U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers is in the midst of building the world’s largest water pump–a pump that hopefully will send floodwaters back into the sea before they hit New Orleans streets.
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