Diverse Coalition Asks Obama To Veto Destructive, Wasteful Levee
Stopping proposed Missouri levee is “a civil rights issue.” $165 million project would increase flood risk in three states and destroy tens of thousands of acres of wetlandsToday, more than two dozen community leaders from Illinois, Missouri, and Kentucky joined with environmental groups from across the country in calling on President Obama to put a stop to an Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) proposal to wall off a vital flood relief valve on the Mississippi River. “This is a civil rights issue. The federal government is proposing to spend $165 million taxpayer dollars to put largely