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This is the first in a special reporting series on federal infrastructure spending and North Carolina’s navigation needs. Millions in supplemental funds from the federal infrastructure bill signed into law last November will be spent unclogging shoaled hot spots in a handful of North Carolina’s shallow-draft inlets, giving a reprieve to the local beach towns… Read More
A 334-meter containership owned by Evergreen Marine is aground in Chesapeake Bay not far from the Port of Baltimore on the U.S. East Coast. A spokesperson for the U.S. Coast Guard’s 5th District confirmed that the M/V Ever Forward grounded Sunday night as she departed with one pilot on board. Automatic identification system (AIS) ship tracking… Read More
ZeroNorth AS, the software spin-off from Maersk Tankers in which agribusiness giant Cargill is an investor, says that last year its platform prevented 218,000 tonnes of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere by ships. To calculate the emissions savings, ZeroNorth examined vessels whose voyages were optimized using its software. It says that the results… Read More
WASHINGTON, DC, March 12, 2022 (ENS) – In a bipartisan vote of 68-31, the U.S. Senate has passed an appropriations bill that will fund government climate, energy, water and wildfire activities, and provide $13.6 billion in new aid for Ukraine, sending the $1.5 trillion bill to President Joe Biden’s desk for signature. President Biden on Friday signed… Read More
Coastal areas are home to major cities around the globe, as well roughly 40% of the world’s population.1 Rising sea levels and coastal flooding around the world due to climate change threaten these areas. While all coastal areas are subject to storms and natural events causing erosion, these factors tend to become greater as sea… Read More
Shipbuilders in the port city of Brownsville, Texas, are nearing the halfway mark on shaping 14,000 tons of steel into a vessel designed to ensure the country’s gamble on offshore wind is less dicey. Meanwhile, 1,676 miles east in Virginia, executives with Richmond-based Dominion Energy who ordered the ship have their fingers crossed. They are… Read More
WASHINGTON – Long before climate change seized the global conscience, when the environment struggled for political traction, North America’s Great Lakes were a dumping ground — a toxic monument to industrial excess on either side of the Canada-U.S. border. More than three decades later, North America’s single largest source of freshwater is back in the… Read More
With concerns that the ban on Russian energy imports could be used as a pretext for seeking Jones Act waivers, the American Maritime Partnership (AMP) today sent a letter on the issue to President Joe Biden to address misconceptions about the Jones Act. Signed by AMP president Ku’uhaku Park, the letter specifically addresses the transportation… Read More
NEW HANOVER COUNTY — The price tag of future beach renourishment events could be impacted by a bill proposed in Congress. If passed, it would require the federal government to pay more for sand-moving on Wrightsville and Carolina beaches. Last summer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife told the Army Corps of Engineers it would no longer… Read More
(March 7, 2022) Town officials have been left with a list of existential questions on how to protect the island from the impact of rising seas and intensifying storms, nearly half a year after the release of the town’s island-wide coastal resilience plan. Arcadis, the coastal engineering group hired by the town to compile the… Read More
ATLANTA — The deepening of Savannah Harbor has been completed seven years after the $1 billion project began, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Wednesday. The harbor has been deepened from 42 feet to 47 feet to accommodate the giant containerized cargo ships now calling at the Port of Savannah regularly with fewer weight… Read More
The funding will help the university start building the new facility on its St. Petersburg campus. The Legislature has allocated $75 million in its budget proposal for the University of South Florida’s new Environmental and Oceanographic Sciences Research and Teaching Facility. The funding will help the university start building the facility on its St. Petersburg… Read More
The city of Whitewater held its Common Council meeting March 1, 2022 to discuss the many happenings in the community such as an update on the Community Space, the Bird scooters being brought back for use this spring, implementation of the Ordinance Chapter 5.56 Enforcement, a lake drawdown update and a proposal for a paramedic… Read More
2021 witnessed a new but familiar competition among stakeholders for the use and enjoyment of the Outer Continental Shelf. Last year, interested parties initiated five lawsuits against the first federally approved offshore wind farm, Vineyard Wind I (located off the coast of Nantucket). And 2022 has so far continued the trend with a new challenge… Read More
President Joe Biden announced today that the U.S. will ban Russian oil, natural gas and coal imports as part of the administration’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In addition to the U.S., ban on Russian energy imports, other countries are also taking action. The U.K. announced that it will phase out imports of Russian… Read More