If there were, that ship never would have hit the bridge. The entire point of what I'm talking about is to put something solid between the bridge supports and anything that might hit them. Usually that takes the form of what amounts to a big concrete island around the bridge supports, but it...
It's just appalling that given how many collisions and collapses there have been, just in the US, that there wasn't already reinforced pilings in place.
Maine uses claims of chemical contamination to shut down farms, then buys the land at "fair market value." The farms just happened to be signed up for a program to put sludge on their land, so the implication is that the government put the very contaminant they claim to be worried about into...
State going after small farms in the name of water conservation. Apparently by redefining what a CAFO (Confined Animal Feeding Operation) is and demanding infrastructure be put in to "protect the water table." This is how they are getting rid of small, family-owned operations while leaving...