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Orange County Parks announced the closure of 1,000 Steps Beach stairs through Wednesday. LAGUNA BEACH, CA — Orange County Parks announced the closure of the 12-flight stair access to 1,000 Steps Beach this week. The stair access would be closed until Wednesday, according to an OC Parks spokesperson. “The closure is necessary to repair multiple… Read More
OCEANSIDE — The City of Oceanside is installing several groins and a sand bypass system as part of a newly approved pilot project meant to improve the city’s disappearing beaches. During a special workshop on Aug. 11, the Oceanside City Council voted 4-1 to approve the pilot project as recommended by the Beach Sand Replenishment… Read More
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Commission received an update about Mountwood Park from officials during a meeting on Thursday morning. According to Wood County Parks Director Jeremy Cross, one of the main projects has been trying to dredge Mountwood Park’s lake marina area due to shallow water up six or eight inches. Although the lake… Read More
Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ed Markey (D-MA), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) today announced the Offshore Wind American Manufacturing Act, which would drive domestic manufacturing and offshore wind deployment. Offshore wind bill The offshore wind supply chain currently exists mainly in Europe, China, and South Korea. With the growing number of offshore wind leases… Read More
At one time, offshore service vessels were the bread and butter work of many U.S. Gulf Coast shipbuilders. Those days are long gone and, with them, a few shipyards. The big hope for a revival of offshore vessel construction, of course, lies in offshore wind. Right now, we are beginning to see the first few… Read More
Census data shows Americans are moving out of locales most insulated from climate change and into the most climate-threatened regions. The results could be disastrous in the near future. Science has provided America with a decent idea of which areas of our country will be most devastated by climate change, and which areas will be most insulated… Read More
Authorizations to build Texas LNG export terminals, pipelines not vacated FERC told failed analysis of projects’ impacts on environmental justice communities FERC chairman Glick says body has ‘obligation’ to analyze impacts of greenhouse gas emissions (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) must further analyze the… Read More
Plans to salvage the eroding Capistrano Beach could have a rocky start. OC Parks is proposing cobblestone buffers that could be topped with sand dunes and vegetation to salvage what’s left of the battered Dana Point beach. The county agency, which manages the 1,500-foot-long shoreline wedged between Doheny State Beach to the north and a… Read More
Rowers and paddlers are increasingly worried about the rising Schuylkill Riverbed between Boathouse Row and Strawberry Mansion Bridge. But work to dredge the river has been at a standstill since late last year, with no progress in sight. Source
CAPE CARTERET — Boaters in Cape Carteret should soon have easier and safer access to the deep waters of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in Bogue Sound. Town Commissioner Steve Martin, speaking during the board of commissioners’ monthly meeting Monday in town hall and virtually on GoToMeeting, said the project to dredge the channel that leads… Read More
As the seas continue to rise, North Carolina’s beaches are expected to face more erosion challenges. But can the state afford to keep pumping sand onto them? Last month, North Topsail Beach made a decision that could have major ramifications for the coastal community’s future. The Onslow County town decided to opt out of a proposed… Read More
(Bureau of Ocean Energy Management) At the end of July, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced that it will conduct an environmental review of a wind farm proposed for the waters off of Kitty Hawk. The 30-day public comment period connected to that review began on Aug. 1. Avangrid — which won the… Read More
LANSING — EGLE officials announced a 28-day public comment period for the proposed removal of the Restrictions on Dredging Activities Beneficial Use Impairment (BUI) from the Manistique River Area of Concern (AOC). Public review and comment is invited and will be accepted through Sept. 8. The Manistique River was declared an AOC in the mid-1980s,… Read More
The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that cleared the U.S. Senate on Tuesday includes roughly $6 billion for Louisiana’s bridges and highway over the next five years. The legislation also puts $371 million into Louisiana’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund Program, which provides low-interest loans to finance projects to bring them into compliance… Read More
Potato-sized clumps of metal at the bottom of the deepest oceans might aid our fight against climate change, but mining these could also damage a world we know very little about. More than 150 years after French author Jules Verne released his Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the classic tale of deep-sea exploration, we… Read More