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Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone that killed 1,392 people and caused damage estimated at $125 billion, particularly in and around the city of New Orleans, in late August 2005. It is tied with Hurricane Harvey as being the costliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin. Katrina was the twelfth tropical cyclone, the fifth hurricane, the third major hurricane, and the second Category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was also the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States, as measured by barometric pressure.
Chester
city in Pennsylvania, United States
Belle Glade
city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States
Texaco
Texaco, Inc. (a shortening of "The Texas Company") is an American oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an independent company until its refining operations merged into Chevron in 2001, at which time most of its station franchises were divested to Shell plc through its American division. It was one of the first gas stations to exist.
East Orosi
census-designated place in Tulare County, California
Picher
ghost town and former city in Ottawa County, northeastern Oklahoma, United States
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
oil pipeline
Exxon Valdez disaster
oil spill
Flint water crisis
contamination by lead of water supply in Flint, Michigan
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
1927 flood of the Mississippi River
Alpine
town
Lake Oahe
fourth-largest US reservoir, in South and North Dakota
Dakota Access Pipeline protests
Series of protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline
Cancer Alley
area in Louisiana with larger than usual clusters of cancer patients
Celilo Falls
Submerged waterfall on the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington. Largest waterfall by flow rate in North America until 1957.
Dakota Access Pipeline
1,134-mile-long (1,825 km) underground oil pipeline project in the United States
The Dalles Dam
gravity dam
Navajo Generating Station
decommissioned coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation
Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake
body of water
Reid–Hillview Airport
general aviation airport in San Jose, California, United States
Oahe Dam
dam in Hughes/Stanley counties, South Dakota
Willow project
oil development project in Alaska
Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
Hurricane damage
Church Rock uranium mill spill
spill in New Mexico on July 16, 1979