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Proposition 68 will also enhance river parkways, protect coastal forests and wetlands, and fund outdoor access, lower-cost coastal accommodations, and climate adaptation. Proposition 68, the California Parks, Environment, and Water Bond, which was approved by voters in the November 2018 state elections, is currently funding around $1 million to environmental projects in Stinson Beach, Richardson… Read More
The nation’s most expensive Superfund cleanup to remove cancer-causing pollution from the Passaic River will be expanded to include 9 more miles in Bergen, Passaic and Essex counties under a plan approved Monday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. But the $1.84 billion project to clean all 17 miles of the lower Passaic is still several… Read More
NEWARK, NJ — After years of industrialization ravaged the Lower Passaic River with chemicals, pesticides and heavy metals, federal environmental officials are now taking the next steps to clean up contaminated sediment in an upper nine-mile portion of the waterway which borders Newark. Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe and Acting Regional Administrator Walter… Read More
DEEP-sea mining involves a collection of government, inter-government, industry, scientific, academic, civil society and other interests. Exploration As of January 2020, the International Seabed Authority (ISA) has issued permits and entered into 30 contracts for exploration for polymetallic nodules, polymetallic sulphides and cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts in the deep-seabed with 21 contractors. Eighteen of these contracts are for… Read More
The federal government finally has decided to clean up several lakes streams connected with the Sherwin-Williams/Lucas Paintworks Superfund Site in Camden County. The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that the next phase of the extensive Superfund site cleanup would be dredging of three contaminated lakes and one creek that span three communities — Gibbsboro, Voorhees and Lindenwold. “Hallelujah!” … Read More
Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have recently developed a methodology for quantifying landscape changes on barrier islands, using Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge and the Outer Banks as their primary focus. In doing so, the researchers found that past storms which devastated human infrastructure also created new opportunities for coastal wildlife to thrive,… Read More
BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) announced it will begin accepting proposals for projects in the Atchafalaya River Basin, today, in anticipation of its Atchafalaya Basin Program (ABP) Annual Plan for Fiscal Year 2023. ABP say they were put in place to develop, implement, and manage a comprehensive state master… Read More
An international construction company appears to have abandoned working on a $1-billion wastewater treatment plant in North Vancouver. An international construction company building the $1-billion wastewater treatment plant in North Vancouver has all but “abandoned” the project, according to Metro Vancouver. The head of the regional federation of municipalities said it learned “without notice” that… Read More
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep. 29, 2021– Orion Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ORN) (the “Company”) a leading specialty construction company, today announced two contract awards for its Marine segment totaling nearly $200 million. The Company has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $125 million from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to replace the State Road 405… Read More
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Sept. 28, 2021 – Elcome International today announced that its Sri Lanka office, International Marine Services, has become an authorized sales and service provider of Koden Electronics products. Elcome, which has been a Koden distributor in UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia and India for more than 30 years, is now also… Read More