The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made a scientifically sound and financially wise decision to stop a controversial flood control project in Mississippi. That's according to one of the nation's leading environmental advocacy groups.
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is praising the EPA's final decision today to block the Yazoo Backwater Area Project. EDF is a long-standing opponent of the project, which would have cost taxpayers $220 million and would have caused widespread damage to tens of thousands of acres of protected land in four National Wildlife Refuges, the Delta National Forest and State Wildlife Management Areas, as well as lands enrolled in US Department of Agriculture conservation programs.
"The Yazoo pumps were a bad idea from the start
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