• Global Warming and the Corps
• Corps Reforms Enacted in 2007
• Citizen's Guide to the Corps of Engineers
• Events
• Reports

GLOBAL WARMING AND THE CORPS
In order to confront global warming, the Corps must take into account the latest global warming science in project planning, and design its projects in a way that protects the natural systems that help mitigate global warming's impacts to people, property and wildlife.

• Corps of Engineers Issues Sea Level Guidance for Civil Works Projects
  On July 1, 2009, the Cors of Engineers issues a guidance "for incorporating the direct and indirect physical effects of projected future sea-level change in managing, planning, engineering, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining USACE projects and systems of projects." The guidance is set to expire on July 1, 2011.
  
  
• Corps Reform Network's Global Warming Resolution
  In consideration of the threats global warming is bringing, it is imperative that we advocate for federal policies and local activities that will protect and enhance our water resources. In order to assist Corps Reform Network Members incorporate these considerations into their program work, the CRN Steering Committee adopted this Global Warming Resolution on September 23, 2009.
  
  
• American's Flood Risk is Heating Up
  As Temperatures Rise, The Army Corps of Engineers Must Improve the Nation's Flood-Control System to address the challenges of global warming (April 2007)
  
  
• Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
  This June 2009 report from the United State Global Change Research Program describes in understandable terms, the impacts global warming is bringing to different regions of the U.S. and global warming impacts on our natural resources. Click here to download just the 11-page section on impacts to water resources.
  
  
• Ecosystem Restoration and Global Climate Change: The Role of Wetlands in Combating Global Warming, by Sarah E. Haas & April H. Gromnicki, National Audubon Society, October 2007
  
  
• Increasing Vulnerability to Hurricanes: Global Warming's Wake-Up Call for the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coasts, National Wildlife Federation, (August 2008) calls for a comprehensive prioritization system for Corps projects.
  
  
• Corps Global Warming Amendment Narrowly Defeated in 2007 Water Resources Development Act Senate Debate

CORPS REFORMS ENACTED IN 2007
On November 8, 2007, WRDA 2007 became law and is now called P.L. 110 - 114. The new law requires the corps to modernize its project planning, strengthen its wetlands mitigation, and independently review certain projects. The law also authorizes $28 billion-worth of projects.

• White House Proposes New 'Principles and Guidelines'
  Getting water projects that strengthen our economy and protect our health, environment and safety starts with the Corps revising its P&G the way Congress intended, as required in WRDA 2007. The White House proposed new guidelines and is taking comment until April 5, 2010.
  -- 105 Organizations Nationwide Comment to CEQ, April 5, 2010
  -- National Conservation Organizations Comment, April 5, 2010
  -- 4-Page Fact Sheet on White House Proposal
  -- 2-Page Fact Sheet on White House Proposal
  -- Federal Register Notice
  -- White House CEQ Releases New Draft Principles on Dec. 3, 2009
  -- Nov. 17, 2009 Letter from Congress Urging Non-Structural Requirement
  -- CRN Fact Sheet: From Poor Planning to Sustainability
  -- 43 Organizations Nation-Wide Comment to CEQ, July 31, 2009
  -- Conservation Group Comments from Oct. 22, 2008
  -- CRN Sign-On Comments from June 5, 2008
  -- P&G Statutory Language in WRDA 2007 (PL 110-114)
  
  
• Congress Hands the Corps a New Set of Orders on Wetlands Mitigation
  This essay, reprinted from the Environmtal Law Institute's National Wetlands Newsletter, describes the new mitigation requirements that the WRDA 2007 imposes on Corps civil works projects.
  
  
• Congress Calls on Corps of Engineers to Implement Reforms
  On November 17,2009, a bipartisan group of Senators led by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Russ Feingold (D-WI) sent high-level Administration officials letters requesting information on the implementation status of several corps reforms that passed in the Water Resources Development Act of 2007.
  

EVENTS

• Corps Reform Network 2010 Membership Meeting
  The Corps Reform Network held its 2010 Membership Meeting in Washington DC, from March 14-16, 2010. Meeting proceedings will be available shortly.
  -- Download Flier and Agenda
  
  
• Corps Reform Network 2007 Annual Meeting Proceedings
  Read about the CRN's 2007 Membership Meeting, where 50 CRN members and local activists joined with community leaders, engineers, and corps staff last November in New Orleans to move the corps reform agenda forward.
  [download printable pdf version]