Chronic shoaling in Hatteras Inlet’s South Ferry Channel persists despite numerous dredging projects over the last five years, but now the Dare County Waterways Commission is facing a tough decision on how to proceed in the face of stubbornly intractable issues. Before the dredge Merritt’s scheduled return on Oct. 1, the panel has to decide… Read More
BY ZOYA SHEFTALOVICH Canberra has signaled for months it was seeking to walk away over cost blowouts and delays. SYDNEY — “A stab in the back” is how French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described Australia’s move to tear up a submarine deal worth more than €50 billion to instead acquire nuclear-powered subs from the United States. France… Read More
Five days after Hurricane Ida made landfall, leaving behind catastrophic flooding and significant damage in its path, U.S. Geological Survey scientists started quickly working a multi-week effort to capture high-water mark elevations in some of the most impacted areas. Teams from USGS water science centers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland are working together to preserve, document, and survey elevations of more than 200 combined high-water marks left from flooding caused by Ida’s heavy rains. “We are working with federal and state partners, along with… Read More
Hurricane Ida is expected to become one of the costliest tropical storm impacts ever to affect the mainland United States, according to insurance and reinsurance broker Aon. The industry has been absorbing the reality of hurricane Ida over the last week or so, as industry loss estimates steadily rose and the impacts of the north… Read More
Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (RODA), a membership-based coalition of fishing industry associations and fishing companies, revealed that it has filed a Petition for Review in the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals regarding the Secretary of the Interior’s approval the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind energy project. The Vineyard Wind 1 project will be located approximately… Read More
