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The City of Lewes has hired former Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Shoreline and Waterway Management Administrator Tony Pratt to analyze and advocate on behalf of the city regarding chronic beach erosion issues. Pratt says the erosion problems can be traced back to the 1930s, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers created… Read More
BATON ROUGE, LA – Today, the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) released its 2021 Year in Review outlining the agency’s accomplishments in coastal protection and restoration. This past year saw the advancement of 110 coastal projects, including 47 projects in construction with a total value of $5.4 billion. “This year we completed 13 projects,… Read More
West Maui residents said they are pursuing legal action and other measures to halt a beach restoration plan at Kāʻanapali Beach that they say is riddled with negative environmental and cultural impacts. The state is proposing to bring to shore 50,000 cubic yards of sand, which will nearly double the width of Kāʻanapali Beach–from 41… Read More
(The Center Square) – When the legislature convenes next year, one of the budget priorities it is expected to address is record funding for environmental conservation projects, which have received a wide range of support from conservation and environmental groups. Florida continues to lead the U.S. as a tourist and recreational destination known for its… Read More
The $18 million project will expand the plant’s service capacity to meet community growth The Town of The Blue Mountains (TBM) has secured an engineering firm to move forward with its $18 million expansion of the Thornbury Wastewater Treatment Plant. IBI Group will be responsible for the design and construction of the equipment for the expansion,… Read More
Officials contained the spill on Friday but were still working to repair a sewer main that collapsed, leading to the release of untreated sewage into the Dominguez Channel. About eight and a half million gallons of untreated sewage have spilled into a flood-control waterway in Los Angeles County since Thursday afternoon, prompting at least five… Read More
Siemens Gamesa and Dominion Energy subsidiary Dominion Energy Virginia are taking the next steps forward with the delivery of offshore wind turbines at the 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind commercial project. An agreement has been reached planning to use 176 units of the large SG 14-222 DD offshore wind turbine for an expected 10-year… Read More
CHARLES CITY, Va. — During his “Thank You, Virginia” tour, Gov. Ralph Northam announced earlier this week that his two-year budget proposal will provide historic funding for the Chesapeake Bay, clean water infrastructure and conserving the Commonwealth’s natural resources. With this proposal, the Commonwealth has dedicated more than $1 billion to restore the Chesapeake Bay… Read More
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and contractors have started a dredging project that will remove about 2.36 million cubic yards of material from the Cape Henry Federal Navigation Channel. According to an Army Corps news release, work for the $14.8 million contract began recently in the channel, which is… Read More
Two Biden administration cabinet members, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, have written leading ocean carriers. They urge them to help mitigate disruptions to agricultural shippers of U.S. exports and relieve supply chain disruptions created by the COVID-19 pandemic by restoring reciprocal treatment of imports and exports and improving service…. Read More
Just look around. Rising sea level, increased tidal flooding, more frequent, beach-eroding storms – those who live and work on Topsail Island see it. The UNCW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s Alliance for the Blue Economy establishes southeastern North Carolina as a national leader in the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, while… Read More
Bill Franks squinted his eyes on a sunny and unusually warm mid-December day and looked out into the Atlantic from the sandy shore of Caswell Beach. “I support clean energy, so they would be good to have,” said the Michigan resident, visiting family in Brunswick County for the holidays, when asked if having wind turbines in the near-shore waters off the North Carolina coast would… Read More
Thousands of acres of salt marshes that buffer the South Atlantic coast from hurricanes, sustain the seafood industry and bolster the tourism economy are in danger of washing away, victims of booming development and limited government oversight that have made the threat of sea level rise more menacing. State regulators in the Carolinas and Georgia… Read More
Maryland’s offshore wind portfolio is poised to grow substantially with a December 17 decision by the Maryland Public Service Commission to award offshore wind renewable energy credits (ORECs) to two developers that have proposed more than 1600 megawatts of energy to be built off the coast of Maryland. The decision in the state’s second round… Read More
(Dec. 16, 2021) The Sconset Beach Preservation Fund has agreed to pour an estimated 20,000 cubic yards of sand onto the geotube project at the foot of the Sconset Bluff this winter, in a move they hope will be a step towards finding a way forward in the ongoing battle over that project. They will… Read More