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Author: Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Delaney Dryfoos, The Lens

Mississippi River named the most endangered of 2025 by non-profit American Rivers

April 16, 2025 Updated April 27, 2025
With budget losses to both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers, mitigation grant programs to address riverine flooding could be impacted substantially. According to FEMA, every federal dollar spent on flood mitigation yields $7 in benefits. 

Latest federal Water Resources Development Act addresses climate extremes and flooding along the Mississippi River

January 17, 2025 Updated January 29, 2025
Louisiana secured the bill’s largest project authorization, for St. Tammany Flood Risk Management. New Orleans scored authorization for a study about salt water in the river.

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