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Mississippi Crud
The Army Corps of Engineers discarded the work of economists who found that the costs of an extensive lock and dam project on the Upper Mississippi River would far outweigh the benefits, a senior Corps economist is charging in a legal affidavit. Donald Sweeney led an economics team in producing a study of the project, […]
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A Turner for the Better
Billionaire and media magnate Ted Turner, already the largest individual landholder in the U.S., has bought a big chunk of land in Florida’s panhandle that he says he’ll leave undisturbed as habitat for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. The 3,620 acres, which Turner purchased for $11.6 million from a homebuilder and developer, abuts another large Turner […]
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Swapping Spat
Enviros are planning to lobby against a proposal in President Clinton’s new budget plan that would give the U.S. Forest Service wide authority to sell public lands. White House officials say the language is intended to help the government swap public tracts for more desirable private ones, but enviros say that if a conservative administration […]
