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GAO Report Sees Climate Risks to Army Corps Projects
2015-07-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Thousands of dams, levees, hurricane barriers and flood walls built across the country by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may be at risk from extreme weather and sea level rise driven by climate change, but the Army Corps has only just begun to assess how vulnerable they are and suffers from a lack of funding, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report. The Army Corps may not be the most prominent of federal government agencies, but the dams, levees and other infrastructure it...
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