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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
The bipartisan infrastructure bill advancing in Congress would provide tens of billions of dollars to help cities and states protect against the effects of climate change, the most in U.S. history. One of the biggest proponents of addressing climate “resilience” was Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Republican from Louisiana, an oil- and gas-producing state experiencing a… Read More
State Senator Christine Cohen (D-12) and State Representative John-Michael Parker (D-101) welcomed a $770,000 state grant for Madison that will help the town replace the seawall at Garvan Point that helps prevent the beach and its facilities from being eroded by waves and storms. The state grant, for which Cohen and Parker advocated, was approved… Read More
Energy companies, many of them now bankrupt, have been allowed to abandon infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico without penalty A Houston-based energy company is asking a federal bankruptcy court for permission to walk away from its aging infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico. Fieldwood Energy is attempting to shift responsibility for removing 1,715 wells,… Read More
The Senate Appropriations Committee released and approved a $53.6 billion fiscal 2022 Energy-Water spending bill that would make significant investments in renewable energy and water infrastructure improvements. Passing on a 25-5 vote, the legislation is the first spending bill to advance in the Senate this fiscal cycle. But headwinds from Republicans and a lack of… Read More
The Brunswick Commissioners extended the usual “not-in-my-backyard” thinking to “not-within-27-miles” Monday, voting to oppose construction of wind turbines within 24 nautical miles (about 27 miles) of the county’s shoreline. Although no wind-energy projects are planned for the area, the federal government has identified three Wind Energy Areas off the North Carolina coast as potential sites… Read More
About 87% of Nova Scotia’s coastline is in private hands A dispute over access to a beach in Cumberland County is headed to court, the latest in a series of coastal access fights in Nova Scotia that have come to a head in the past year. A group of community members is suing a property owner… Read More
The Federal Maritime Commission has launched an expedited inquiry into the timing and legal sufficiency of ocean carrier practices with respect to certain surcharges. Eight ocean carriers are being asked to provide the Commission’s Bureau of Enforcement (BoE) with details about congestion or related surcharges they have implemented or announced. BoE has given the ocean… Read More