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GONZALES — Ascension Parish public works trucks have been delivering loads of dirt from a dredging project to property owned by a company held by the father of first-term Councilman Joel Robert, according to the councilman and land records. Residents and a parish contract suggest loads have been dropped off over the past three to… Read More
COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. – The Collier County Coastal Zone Management Division began a sand dune restoration project Tuesday that spans 3,000 feet from Doctors Pass to Lowdermilk Park. Workers will remove non-native plants and replace them with plants that are native to the area. This will help strengthen the sand dunes, according to Coastal Zone… Read More
Bimini Bay and Lake La Vista inlet in Anna Maria could be prime sites for a clam and seagrass restoration project if Ed Chiles gets his way. “These clams are more valuable for restoration than as a $16 appetizer in my restaurants,” Chiles told Anna Maria city commissioners. Chiles made his Anna Maria presentation July… Read More
The upcoming report from the IPCC is expected to lay out the scary scenarios that await the planet as temperatures continue to rise. Congress is preparing to order the biggest U.S. investment in history for fighting climate change — hundreds of billions of dollars to clean up the power grid, fortify ecosystems and wean American… Read More
Marine scientists aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor have completed a 12-day expedition off the coast of Southern California to survey the biodiversity of deep sea areas rich in minerals that are of interest to deep sea mining developers around the world. The expedition, which covered 5,310 square miles, explored nine deep sea sites,… Read More
Gator Dredging completed the beach re-nourishment project located at Honeymoon Island State Park in Pinellas County. This project was performed for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and behalf of the Florida Parks Service. The $1,895,919.53 project consisted of the dredging 151,000 cubic yards of beach compatible sand from two borrow areas located within the… Read More
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Corpus Christi, TX, USA – The Port of Corpus Christi is expressing its full support for an amendment by the U.S. Senate to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package that expands congressional designation of Interstate 14 on a corridor across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. The I-14 corridor would connect strategic military installations across those five… Read More
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Drought and historic low-water level reveal sediment blockage The drought in Southwest Colorado has triggered a dredging operation on McPhee Reservoir to remove sediment that blocks delivery of water to irrigation canals during the reservoir’s lowest level. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Dolores Water Conservancy District are working to remove an estimated 13,000 cubic… Read More
In a first, $4 million of the $38 million available in the Federal Transit Administration’s latest round of Passenger Ferry Grants will be set aside specifically for low or zero-emission ferries, or ferries using electric battery or fuel cell components and the infrastructure to support such ferries. The latest round of grants was announced in… Read More
A peer-reviewed study published in the American Chemical Society’s Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Journal indicates that the GHG intensity of LNG shipping may be substantially less than suggested by some earlier studies. The first-of-its-kind life cycle assessment (LCA) study analysis utilizes GHG emissions data specific to Cheniere Energy Inc.’s LNG supply chain from natural gas… Read More
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A group of activists says the Schuylkill River is in such poor shape that future regattas may have to be moved. Philadelphia has a history of rowing that dates back to before the Civil War, but the activists say without something being done, the future could be in jeopardy. “Everyone that’s had… Read More
Watson Lake is one of two reservoirs at the Granite Dells formed in the early 1900s when the Chino Valley Irrigation District built a dam on Granite Creek. The City of Prescott bought the reservoir and surrounding land in 1997 to preserve it for recreational purposes as well as to capture surface water runoff from… Read More
FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WPMI) — After each major storm, the city of Fairhope has been renourishing a small stretch of beach known as Magnolia Beach just south of the Fairhope Pier, over and over again. So far since 2000, FEMA has reimbursed the city a total of $130,000 while replenishing the sand seven times since then…. Read More