The Marine Minerals Administration today announced the availability of a Proposed Notice of Sale for Big Beautiful Cook Inlet 2, or BBC2, the second offshore oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet required by the Working Families Tax Cut Act of 2025. The proposed sale would make approximately 1.05 million acres available for… Read More
By Jay Edwards U.S. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. Tuesday presented $560,000 in federal funding to Mount Arlington on Monday for a dredging project aimed at improving stormwater management at Memorial Pond and protecting the water quality of Lake Hopatcong. Memorial Pond manages stormwater and serves as a basin before water enters Lake Hopatcong. Over time,… Read More
By Jens Karsten Scotland’s Lerwick Port Authority (LPA) expects to complete its harbour dredging campaign in Shetland within this month as contractor Boskalis Westminster works through the final areas. The campaign covers five areas of Lerwick Harbour: North Ness Channel, the central basin, Gremista, Mair’s Pier and Dales Voe. The LPA said the improvements will… Read More
By Sam Lemonick Starting this winter, crews could begin a multiple-year process to try to reverse harmful effects of agriculture on Long Marsh. If the Harpswell Heritage Land Trust and its partners are successful, the salt marsh will provide more habitat for animals and be more resilient to rising sea levels. Salt marshes are tidal wetlands where… Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last month announced that it selected the San Francisco Estuary Partnership and the Association of Bay Area Governments as awardees of a $13.9 million grant to restore and enhance some 1,500 acres of tidal wetland habitat known as Strip Marsh East along the State Route 37 corridor in Solano County…. Read More
