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Transformational Habitat Restoration and Coastal Resilience Grants - $240 million in funding is available for transformational habitat restoration and coastal resilience projects under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act.

Michigan is getting some federal money to help preserve coastlines in this era of climate change. Federal money can be used to restore wetlands, buy property to use as a buffer, and invest in nature-based infrastructure.

Federal funding is kicking in on Maui but a budget shortfall looms in Washington.

Despite the current lull in the Atlantic hurricane season, we shouldn't let our guards down as forecasters are still anticipating a higher number of storms than usual this year.

Occidental Petroleum Corp. has started work to build a direct air carbon capture plant in the Texas Permian Basin, above in rendering, it says can remove 500,000 tons per year, with Worley as EPC contractor. The firm also is tapped to build the first of what could be 30 units of a larger version to located in southern Texas that has gained about $500M in new DOE funding.

In a letter to President Biden and the Pentagon, nine members of Congress urged the Administration to “keep all options on the table, including deep-sea opportunities, in assessing polymetallic nodules as a viable resource to secure critical minerals and close national security vulnerabilities.”

NEW BEDFORD - Is there a better place to site the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Northeast operations than New Bedford? Mayor Jon Mitchell doesn't think so.

The central California coast, with its rugged beaches and kelp forests, draws a lot of visitors for its scenic beauty. For the Chumash people, the coastline means a lot more.

Over 10 months after Hurricane Ian, federal response is being evaulated. Subcommittee aims to identify and improve disaster response in the future. Resident: “This is a significant undertaking for us”

SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, Calif. – Chairwoman of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council, Violet Sage Walker, was appointed to the federal Ocean Research Advisory Panel on Aug. 1.

As climate change makes storms stronger and sunny-day flooding more prevalent, educating the next generation of coastal zone managers becomes even more important.

NANJEMOY, Md. – NOAA will invest $5 million from the Inflation Reduction Act in Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary to support pre-construction and design requirements for a sanctuary visitor center in Charles County, Maryland.

WASHINGTON – The Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works announced today additional U.S. Army Corps of Engineers studies and projects funded through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (DRSAA) of 2022, and the DRSAA of 2023. These actions invest over $454 million to help communities reduce their flood risks from coastal storms and to restore delicate aquatic ecosystems.

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) and the Minority-Serving Institutions STEM Research and Development Consortium (MSRDC) have opened a $1.2 million funding opportunity to support promising, potentially high-impact water power research ideas from minority-serving colleges and universities.

Federal agencies would be required to do a full accounting of how their decisions affect ecosystems the public depends on under a draft guidance that the White House will release Tuesday.

The US Department of Commerce and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have launched the Ocean-Based Climate Resilience Accelerators program, designed to support blue economy startups and concepts.

Hello everyone. I’m so pleased to be here at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to engage with you all about how the Department of Commerce is leveraging its resources to build a more resilient economy.

San Juan, Puerto Rico – In Puerto Rico, accidents with manatees are mostly caused by collisions with jet skis or motor and propeller boats, according to the director of the Manatee Conservation Center, Antonio Mignucci.

WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, today raised questions about the fairness of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act’s (GOMESA) limits on revenue that Louisiana can receive.

Nationally standardized, raster-based inventories of U.S. coastal land cover data are derived from the analysis of multiple dates of remotely sensed imagery. Two types of files are available: individual dates of land cover that supply a wall-to-wall map for each area, and change files that compare one date to another.

Florida - Saturday July 22, 2023: NOAA Fisheries and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have proposed to designate new areas of critical habitat to protect threatened and endangered green sea turtles.

Input from across sectors will build on existing efforts to make NOAA’s climate data, information, science and tools more accessible and inclusive

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On July 20, 2023, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing to consider stakeholder views for the development of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2024.

Science and technology portrayed during undersecretary’s Alaska visit as essential to meeting challenges of public safety and emergency response

NOAA’s National Hurricane Center — a division of the National Weather Service — has a new model to help produce hurricane forecasts this season. The Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS) was put into operations on June 27 and will run alongside existing models for the 2023 season before replacing them as NOAA’s premier hurricane forecasting model.