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Ten billion dollars in funding to restore beach dunes and dune grass, salt marshes and estuaries, oyster and coral reefs may seem unrelated to the rebuilding of America’s crumbling roads, bridges and sewer plants. But restoring and expanding natural coastal barriers — or living infrastructure — is actually a practical cost-effective way of reducing the… Read More
While the Offshore Marine Services Association (OMSA) has recently chartered in its own vessel to patrol for Jones Act violations, it seems that it did not have to put to sea to document its first allegation of a violation made under its Jones Act Enforcer program. It only had to check out some social media… Read More
The latest IPCC report on climate change paints a frightening picture, but it also indicates there is time for rapid decarbonization to make a difference. For the U.S., that means tapping into massive new energy resources that have been dormant all these years. Floating offshore wind power is one of those areas, and it finally appears… Read More
PROVIDENCE — Apart from the loss of power in the southern half of the state, the damage from Tropical Storm Henri in Rhode Island may have seemed a little underwhelming. But in Burlingame State Campground in Charlestown, not far from where the storm made landfall Sunday afternoon in Westerly, a trail of destruction was left in its wake…. Read More
According to the Ohio EPA, the following is a timeline of the river cleanup: • 2013, Strategic Navigation Dredging: Under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, U.S. Army corps of Engineers dredged 114,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment from federal navigation channel in upper and lower river. • 2013, Jack’s Marine North Slip Sediment Cleanup: Under the… Read More
More than a dozen commercial and recreational fishers worked together over the past year to remove 1 million pounds of marine debris created by past hurricanes from the central and southeast coasts. The North Carolina Coastal Federation, which is heading up the effort in partnership with the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management, received nearly… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — Carteret County’s June occupancy tax numbers are in, and they shattered the collection record for the month by more than $600,000. Revenue from the 6% tax on rental accommodations totaled $2,186,741, up 38% over the June 2020 total of $1,582,344. In his monthly report for the Carteret County Beach Commission meeting set… Read More
WELLFLEET — Penelope Jencks remembers the conversations her parents and their friends had in the years leading up to the creation of the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1961. Her parents had owned property in Wellfleet since 1939. They built a house there. When they found out the federal government wanted to establish a national park on the Outer Cape and take private property by eminent domain, her… Read More
CEDAR RAPIDS — Dale Todd called it. Decades ago, the now-Cedar Rapids City Council member summed up a vision to turn Cedar Lake — an urban lake long seen as an eyesore and plagued by environmental problems — into a game-changing community asset. “This derelict site can be transformed into a recreational mecca for skateboarders,… Read More
AP Moller-Maersk A/S, the world’s biggest container shipping line, was expected to make around $4.5 billion in operating profit in 2021, according to estimates at the start of the year by the financial analysts who follow the company. Their estimates have turned out to be totally wrong. Due to surging freight rates stemming from global… Read More
Hawaii wants cleaner energy to fight climate change. The military wants renewable energy for fighting China. The military and civilian researchers in Hawaii have stepped up efforts to harness the powerful waves and ocean currents off Oahu as a source of renewable energy. The Navy recently gave an infusion of $6 million to continue research into the… Read More
Study says project could cost $3.18 million TIERRA VERDE, Fla. — Residents of a Pinellas County community say they shouldn’t have to foot the entire multi-million dollar bill to keep their canal from drying up, so ABC Action News wanted to find out what’s behind the water worries along a popular boating waterway. The I-Team… Read More
The City of San Luis Obispo is beginning work next week to restore Laguna Lake after years of sediment buildup has impacted the water quality and the lake’s recreational usage. As a part of the Laguna Lake Natural Reserve Conservation Plan, the city will start a two-week project in mid-September to dredge the lake. Bob… Read More
Environmentally concerned citizens will file a lawsuit in federal court in Boston on Wednesday in opposition to a proposed offshore wind energy farm. The lawsuit aims to stop the industrialization of Massachusetts’ coastal ecosystem that would result from the construction of over 2,000 offshore wind turbines off of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, they announced in… Read More
Forecasts for offshore wind installation on the East Coast of the United States point to an immediate need for investment in standardized safety and technical training, says the Global Wind Organisation (GWO), the industry-owned non-profit responsible for wind technician training standards. GWO has forecast that over 25,000 people will require basic entry-level standard training to… Read More