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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
Learn more about why the nation’s inland waterways are critical to our economy, jobs, environmental sustainability, and much more! Source
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
A roadmap for completing vital Everglades restoration projects is undergoing its annual readjustment and Palm Beach County officials want Lake Worth Lagoon repair back in the spotlight. The tediously named Integrated Delivery Schedule outlines when and how the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, or CERP, will be completed and is tweaked each fall to take into… Read More
**Legislation also contains more than $3.74 million for NH projects through Congressional Direct Spending** **Shaheen secures increased federal aid for Northern Border Regional Commission** (Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, successfully secured a number of critical Granite State and national priorities in bipartisan funding legislation for… Read More
On Friday, President Joseph Biden approved more than $3.46 billion to increase resilience to the impacts of climate change nationwide. This significant investment will be available for natural hazard mitigation measures across the 59 major disaster declarations issued due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. With the growing climate change crisis facing the nation, FEMA’s Hazard… Read More