Bloomberg: An Iowa senator demanded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers explain why it refused to use Missouri River water to replenish the drought-stricken Mississippi a day after it approved releasing water for oil drilling.
“Corps leaders have a responsibility to explain this turn of events -- and not just to Congress, but to Iowa communities and others like them up and down the Mississippi River that rely on the river for moving goods,” Senator Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, said today in an e-mailed statement.......
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Harkin Seeks Reason for Missouri Water Release After Snub
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 11th, 2013
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