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It’s Midday on the Environment. Today, a conversation about the Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States, extending 200 miles from its northern headwaters in the Susquehanna River to its outlet in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s fed by more than 150 major rivers and streams and it encompasses parts… Read More
Surf City leaders are ready to move forward with a beach nourishment project through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, but their North Topsail Beach neighbors are backing away because of financial concerns. The Onslow County community will not sign a Project Partnership Agreement for the Surf City/North Topsail Beach Coastal Storm Risk Management plan, citing a massive cost increase… Read More
Maine Gov. Janet Mills has signed into law legislation prohibiting new offshore wind projects in state waters. According to her office, the prohibition preserves state waters—where up to 75% of Maine’s commercial lobster harvesting occurs—for fishing and recreation and cements into law Maine’s priority of locating offshore wind projects in federal waters in the Gulf… Read More
ORLEANS – Before July is out the town plans to begin the permitting process to dredge a channel from Town Cove to the entrance of Nauset Inlet, a project under discussion for years to address the silted-in estuary and enable safer ocean access for recreational boaters and commercial fishermen. Parts of the dredge area lie… Read More
Stephen Theberge grew up a few blocks from the New Bedford harbor, and his memory of the waterway in the 1980s isn’t pretty. “It was abysmal,” said Theberge, recalling the sight (and smell) of raw sewage and garbage lapping the shores where he used to fish. One image still sticks with him: “The striped bass’… Read More
The state BLNR heard from the Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands on a programmatic statewide small-scale beach restoration (SSBR) permitting program that would reauthorize and expand the existing OCCL beach nourishment program to “streamline” activities. Shellie Habel, Ph.D., presented the project — which has 19 pages of conditions — to BLNR members Friday, focusing… Read More
One of the crossovers, south of Carlin Park, has a 7-foot drop from the end of the staircase to the sand. JUPITER — Palm Beach County has closed two beach access points in Jupiter, saying erosion has made them unsafe, according to a social media post from the town. Beach crossovers Nos. 46 and 47, along State… Read More
On July 8, the Captiva Erosion Prevention District reported that the beach renourishment project’s start was being coordinated with its contractor, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock, and the resource agencies. Following recent and ongoing planning discussions, construction is now projected to start no earlier than Aug. 26, pending all notice-to-proceed approvals from the agencies. At… Read More
Dive Brief: Cities, villages and other jurisdictions along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River face nearly $2 billion in costs over the next five years to address coastal damage driven by climate change, per survey results released last week by the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative (GLSLCI). According to survey responses, 95%… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The San Francisco Bay could get a $125 million boost to help improve its water quality and restore surrounding wetlands. The House of Representatives passed the San Francisco Bay Restoration Act last month and the Senate recently referred it to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose), who co-sponsored the bill,… Read More
Key Points It’s the latest attempt to encourage innovation within a sector that has a very small footprint compared to other types of renewable energy. The development of wave energy technologies is not exclusive to the United States. Europe, for instance, is also home to a fledgling sector. The U.S. Department of Energy has announced… Read More
The government funded beach construction for private developers, which displaced Black farmers from their coastal lands. For many people, summer means days spent at idyllic beaches that stretch along the coastline of the American South. But as historian Andrew W. Kahrl writes, Americans haven’t always seen southern coasts as attractive places. At the start of… Read More
Lawmakers in Congress on Friday introduced a bill that would pump tens of billions of dollars into fixing and upgrading the country’s dams. The Twenty-First Century Dams Act, introduced by Democratic U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster of New Hampshire, proposes to spend nearly $26 billion to make the repairs that would enhance safety and increase the… Read More
Should containership lines and ocean shipping alliances be getting hot and bothered by President Biden’s executive order aimed at increasing competition in U.S. economy? The only aspect of liner shipping specifically addressed in the order looks to be detention and demurrage charges. Here’s what the order says: The Chair of the Federal Maritime Commission is… Read More
While sharing a bottle of wine a few years back, Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz commiserated about how much glass was ending up in New Orleans’ landfills. They also cared deeply about coastal erosion. Both Tulane University students at the time, Louisiana-born Trautmann- who subsequently graduated with a degree in chemical engineering, and New Yorker… Read More