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IATP, American Rivers, Environmental Defense, Illi
A coalition of environmental, agriculture and taxpayer groups today released a report detailing fundamental flaws in a $2.3 billion proposal to expand locks on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers. The report, entitled Twice Cooked Pork: The Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Navigation Study, concludes that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers revised study is based on "an unprecedented combination of mistakes, miscalculations and misstatements."