Army To Face Trial On New Orleans Wetlands Damage

By Evan Weinberger (March 20, 2009, 12:00 AM EDT) -- Giving the go-ahead for a trial next month on whether the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated environmental laws in its maintenance of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a federal judge ruled Friday that questions remained over the Army Corps' destruction of protective wetlands, which allegedly led to devastating storm surges in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina....

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