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Digging into the President’s FY22 Budget As reported last month, President Biden sent his Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 detailed budget to Congress on May 28. The overall amount budgeted by the Administration for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is $6.8 billion which is 14% more than the FY21 Budget; and the highest amount ever in… Read More
U.S. Representatives Jared Huffman (D-Calif.-2) and Jennifer González-Colón (R-P.R.), along with U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), have introduced legislation that would reauthorize the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Coastal Program, which brings together FWS activities in priority coastal areas along the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Gulf of Mexico, Great Lakes,… Read More
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) said yesterday that it will begin conducting an environmental review of a Construction and Operations Plan (COP) submitted by Vineyard Wind LLC, for its Vineyard Wind South offshore wind project. This comes after BOEM last moth granted approval for construction and ooperation of the Vineyard Wind I project…. Read More
Roads collapsing into the water, a stairway and pavilion swept away, dozens of yards of beach submerged: In the last year, erosion has pummeled the Lake Michigan shoreline and the property edging it. It was, locals say, the worst erosion they’ve seen on the lake in decades. But it’s not unprecedented. In fact, it’s part of a natural cycle… Read More
MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – The Mona Lake channel to Lake Michigan that has been nearly impassable to boaters this year is getting dredged this week. The Mona Lake Improvement Association and the city of Norton Shores are paying the costs to remove beach sand that migrated to the west end of the channel just east… Read More
Amid encouraging signs, researchers and activists are struggling to make progress in the face of agricultural inputs, climate change, and relentless development. On a warm October day, six researchers ventured out to a reef in Baines Creek, a tributary of Virginia’s Elizabeth River. Back in 2014, the Army Corps of Engineers had dumped tons of… Read More
TAMPA, Fla. — Environmental groups are urging federal lawmakers to allocate $10 billion in the upcoming infrastructure package for coastal restoration projects to prevent flooding and bolster the economy. The move would have a big impact on Florida, where tidal flooding has increased by 352% since 2000. More than 100 groups have signed a letter… Read More
For weeks at a time, crews have been scouring remote sections of the West Coast — digging out massive fishing nets, hauling lines, tossing thousand of buoys and shifting mountains of Styrofoam to try to make a dent in the ocean refuse finding its way onto B.C.’s wildest shores. A shocking 210 tonnes of flotsam… Read More
The 147 hectares of intact coastal beach, sand dunes and wetlands was purchased for $780K The Nova Scotia Nature Trust has purchased a coastal wilderness area near Port La Tour, N.S., to save it from future development and provide a safe space for at-risk birds. Port La Tour Beach, which is about 11 kilometres south… Read More
PermaCity is installing a 2.2-MW solar array atop an ocean research facility on the wharf at the Port of Los Angeles. Once completed, it is likely the project will be the second largest solar installation at a U.S. port. PermaCity, a division of Catalyze, is using its proprietary SolarStrap roof mounting technology on the project… Read More
San Francisco Bay Area levees, on average, need to be raised 7 feet over the next 80 years to protect cities and infrastructure from severe damage and flooding caused by expected sea level rise. The only way levees can be built taller and stronger is with clean dirt excavated from construction sites in the… Read More
History has been dredged up at the back of Paroa. Contractors working on a residential development at Paroa Estate, just south of Greymouth, have unearthed the remains of what they believe to be the Leviathan dredge, which worked the area about the year 1900. Part of the dredge was exposed about two weeks ago, and… Read More
WASHINGTON – Louisiana’s senior senator, Bill Cassidy, is praising the bipartisan agreement reached Thursday on an infrastructure package. Cassidy, along with nine other senators, met with President Joe Biden before announcing a deal had been reached. “It’s huge,” Cassidy said. “The biggest infrastructure package in the history of the United States of America. More money… Read More
Corpus Christi (Nueces County) — In the 16 months since Phillips 66 and Trafigura Group pte. Ltd. announced the formation of a joint venture to build an offshore deepwater port near Corpus Christi Bay the stakeholders have kept busy meeting the demands of a federal permitting process that includes an extensive inquiry into the environmental… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — The Carteret County Beach Commission will consider endorsing an application for a U.S. Department of Defense grant for nourishment at Radio Island, in connection to a dredging project for east Taylor’s Creek, when it meets Monday in Emerald Isle. The meeting will begin at 2 p.m. in the town commission meeting room… Read More