A mural titled ‘The Security of the People’ by Seymour Fogel, illustrating the values and programs put forth by the New Deal. | Fine Art/GettyImages Nearly 100 years later, Americans are still ...

Grays Harbor County in Washington secured a federal grant to pay for a much-needed levee with bipartisan support. Then the ...

Shelved plans from '60s for TVA project in NC unlikely to make comeback. Dam failures, costs and ecology will make new dams ...

For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their ...

The REINS Act is superior because it reverses this dynamic by requiring congressional approval for all major regulations — an ...

It originally started as river bank protection to control flooding near the Rillito River. “At the time, we had just become the flood control district,” says Suzanne Shields, director of the ...

The DCPOC board member pointed out the city completed a study 4 years ago which called for many of the same flood mitigation ... “We have absolutely no control over their timelines,” he ...

Key Takeaways Federal citizen suits are likely to become more frequent as the federal government decreases its enforcement ...

When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental ...

What many visitors may not know is that the Mill Creek project was originally an issue of flood control, not a recreational area, and that the time between the initial conception and the opening ...

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