Attorney General Buddy Caldwell fired off a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sunday night in what he called an effort to avoid "an unnecessary and divisive constitutional confrontation between the federal government and the State of Louisiana." Caldwell wrote in response to news that the Corps was inclined to deny permits to dredge and fill in an effort to rebuild barrier islands to protect the state's fragile wetlands from oil leaking from the BP oil leak. Caldwell asked the Corps to consider emergency permits to allow the state to dredge a protective barrier for the coast, but stated that the state's position is that the federal government does not have the legal authority to deny a state the right to conduct emergency response actions.
Attorney General Puts Corps on Notice -- Feds Don't Have Authority to Prevent LA from Dredging to Save Coast
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