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Portions of Louisiana sit along the Gulf of Mexico and that expansive body of water is seen as a major resource for offshore renewable energy which involves the generation of electricity from sea or ocean-based resources. Clean energy efforts are what brought Deputy U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Don Graves to the New Orleans area on… Read More
Delayed for nearly a year, the long-anticipated cleanup of the Weeki Wachee River began again last month and this week water district managers decided to show off how to do house cleaning in a spring-fed river. Imagine a giant, underwater vacuum cleaner, a diver in a wetsuit sucking muck off the river bottom using a… Read More
California State Parks, in partnership with County of Orange and the city of Dana Point, announced today a major sand replenishment project for the south day-use area of Doheny State Beach (SB) and neighboring Capistrano Beach Park. Large storm events coupled with shrinking inputs of sand from local creeks and bluffs have led to narrower, mostly cobble beaches…. Read More
Manson Construction Co., Seattle, Washington, was awarded a $20,955,770 firm-fixed-price contract for Oakland harbor maintenance dredging. Bids were solicited via the internet with two received. Work will be performed in Oakland, California, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 30, 2023. Fiscal 2023 civil construction funds in the amount of $20,955,770 were obligated at the… Read More
WALLA WALLA – The Walla Walla City Council unanimously approved Wednesday to ratify an emergency declaration for dredging at the city’s surface water intake located behind the intake dam on Mill Creek in Oregon. The screens that surround the intake pipe are currently 40 percent blocked by sediment and are not allowing sufficient water to pass… Read More
Conrad Shipyard LLC,* Morgan City, Louisiana, is awarded a $18,293,952 firm-fixed-price modification to previously-awarded contract N00024-22-C-2253 for the detail design and construction of one additional Yard, Repair, Berthing, and Messing craft. Work will be performed in Amelia, Louisiana, and is expected to be completed by March 2025. Fiscal 2023 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in… Read More
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — With Gov. Ron DeSantis putting pen to paper in signing the state’s budget for the fiscal year Thursday, St. Johns County received $59 million — the largest amount of state appropriations the county has ever received and far more than the $12.4 million it got last year. Among the projects funded in the budget… Read More
At an open house about the project Tuesday, members of Audubon North Carolina worried that dredging will lead to more erosion — possibly damaging the island habitats of nesting coastal water birds. Kerri Allen of the North Carolina Coastal Federation said dredging could destroy wetlands that prevent flooding. That’s made much worse by the impacts… Read More
On June 8th, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Sheldon Whitehouse introduced a legislation to reduce air pollution within the shipping industry. Padilla’s Clean Shipping Act of 2023 aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the shipping industry to protect the health of port communities and address the environmental injustice impacts of the climate crisis. The… Read More
Candidates expressed support for $50 billion coastal plan and controversial sediment diversions While political battles waged on over the budget and cultural issues at the Capitol, those competing to be Louisiana’s next governor found common ground Friday in a coastal forum. The five candidates present at the New Orleans event hosted by the Coalition to… Read More
House Republicans are pushing to make the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration an independent agency, proposing to remove it from the Commerce Department’s umbrella and boost the role of science at the agency. The NOAA Organic Act, introduced on Friday by Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., who chairs the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, would formalize… Read More
Climate change already affects every part of the globe, with potentially dire consequences for many ecosystems and human communities. Reducing human-caused emissions of greenhouse gasses, including carbon dioxide, is the most important strategy for addressing the impacts of climate change, and the most feasible given current technology. Alongside emissions reductions, the IPCC recommends that climate… Read More
During the energy crises of the 1970s, the founder of America’s first wind power engineering program told the U.S. Congress that wind turbines could eliminate the United States’ dependence on foreign energy. University of Massachusetts engineering professor William Heronemus foresaw turbines tapping the potent winds blowing offshore and using the electrolysis of seawater to store their renewable power as… Read More
Maui’s Kaanapali Beach, pictured on Friday, has been threatened by the ocean for years and state sea-level projections show the erosion growing dire in the coming decades. Area resorts have installed barriers along the shore. For years, the ocean has been eroding parts of Maui’s Kaanapali Beach, slowly shrinking the shoreline and threatening the foundations… Read More
Federal authorities have outlined a path forward for controversial plans to dredge a canal for oil tankers through a Superfund site on the Texas coast despite persistent environmental concerns. In a presentation Tuesday night in a hotel conference room here, officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers outlined a $2.8 million effort to test the… Read More