The protests, which began on May 28th to block a development project, grew into a fractious national expression of political discontent.
The Army Corps of Engineers, which issued the regulation in 1986, invoked it in 1994 to block a landfill project on an abandoned strip mine in northeastern Illinois.
It's not hard to imagine the fierce, charismatic Björk we see on stage staring down the police to block a dam project.
(AP) NEW WINDSOR: SUIT OVER AIRPORT ROAD -- Environmental and citizens' groups have sued to block a highway project at Stewart International Airport in Orange County.
Perhaps the nastiest and longest-running beach-access fight on the coast has helped to block a $50 million project by the Army Corps of Engineers on Long Beach Island, a popular tourist haven in Ocean County.
They include a Montana investment deal involving land owned by a foundation connected to Zinke and his wife, as well as the department's move to block a casino project in Connecticut proposed by the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes after Zinke met with lobbyists for MGM Resorts International.
The lifelong Baltimorean and former social worker, who first gained prominence in a successful fight to block a highway project from cleaving long-established Baltimore neighborhoods, rose to serve as chair and then as ranking member of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee.
Last year, his efforts to block a fracking project in his posh Dallas suburb made the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
—Why environmental groups want to block a solar farm project: Environmentalists are pushing back against a solar panel project from Georgetown University that would involve razing about 210 acres of trees in Charles County, Md .The solar company insists the panels will lead to emission reductions "equivalent to planting hundreds of thousands of trees," The Post's Rachel Chason reports.
The civic association sued in 1966 to block a public housing project.
