Waterways

The Ocean Shipping Reform Implementation Act aims to streamline port logistics, reduce disruption, and address the influence of Chinese companies on shippers’ operations.

Eco Wave Power is one of a small group of startups racing to prove that the ocean can help meet renewable energy goals.

In a story that went little noticed by media but was welcomed by port and waterways advocates, both houses of the Illinois Legislature recently unanimously passed the Illinois Waterway Ports Commission Act.

WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday put another dent in the regulatory reach of the Environmental Protection Agency, embracing a stringent new test for declaring wetlands protected under a landmark federal anti-pollution law in a ruling favoring an Idaho couple who challenged the agency.

The Indian government recently granted key approvals for an international container port on the Great Nicobar Island, which may prevent leatherback turtles from reaching their nesting sites

Most people probably associate algal blooms with red tides in Florida that can lead to skin irritation, burning eyes and rashes in exposed individuals.

As climate change amplifies the risks of septic tanks, lawmakers must act to protect their communities.

Dead fish were everywhere, speckling the beach near town and extending onto the surrounding coastline. The sheer magnitude of the October 2021 die-off, when hundreds, possibly thousands, of herring washed up, is what sticks in the minds of the residents of Kotzebue, Alaska. Fish were “literally all over the beaches,” says Bob Schaeffer, a fisherman and elder from the Qikiqtaġruŋmiut tribe.

Shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk is selling its stake in deep-sea mining firm The Metals Company, even as the legal process to allow seabed mining approaches its final stages.

The schooner Apollonia is the only working sail freighter in the U.S. Over its first three seasons shipping up and down the Hudson River, it has moved around 110,000 pounds of cargo and burned fewer than 10 gallons of diesel fuel.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small joined Sen. Tom Carper and environmental partners to announce $18.3 million in investments to protect and preserve the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and Delaware River Basin.

The fate of millions of acres of wetlands hinges on five vague words in the Clean Water Act.

FORT SHAFTER, HAWAII — Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Pacific Ocean Division (POD) announced its decision to remand the Alaska District’s November 25, 2020 permit application denial of Pebble Limited Partnership’s (PLP) proposed mining operations in the Bristol Bay watershed in southwestern Alaska.

LARGER THAN LIFE - "Just the massive scale of construction"

The killer waves came with little warning. One of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded human history – a tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people in Asia in 2004 – took most victims by complete surprise. Closer to home, large tsunamis have occurred in the U.S. and will undoubtedly occur again, the U.S. Geological Survey warned.

Madison, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA) Secretary Kathy Blumenfeld announced that Wisconsin is set to receive a total of $2.5 million as part of a climate resilience investment from the Biden Administration’s Investing In America initiative, funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act.

Surfrider Foundation’s Blue Water Task Force program released its annual Maui water quality report for 2022.

With 99% of the goods that go to Northern California in the balance, shallow San Francisco Bay tries to make way for newer, bigger ships

(South Korea) - Container shipping heavyweight Maersk has achieved a major milestone in its efforts to reduce carbon emissions with the successful launching of its first methanol-powered feeder vessel at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard.

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge ruled Wednesday in favor of states seeking an injunction blocking a federal regulation affecting bodies of water, including navigable waterways, lakes and streams.

Northern California river advocates and tribal groups have been fighting for more than two decades for the removal of four dams on the Klamath River. Their victory late last year set the stage for the removal project to become the largest of its kind in U.S. history.

When Duke Energy unveiled its plans to meet North Carolina's aggressive carbon-cutting goals, attention quickly focused on the utility giant's plan to replace much of the energy produced by its pollution-spewing coal-fired power plants with new natural gas-powered facilities.

Tradition regards the biblical account of the Red Sea split as an accurate retelling of events, but scientists have tried to explain it in terns of nature.

With 99% of the goods that go to Northern California in the balance, shallow San Francisco Bay tries to make way for newer, bigger ships

TAMPA, Fla. - A newly completed study from Florida International University found high amounts of opioids, heart medication and other prescription drugs in redfish throughout the state’s most important estuaries, with Tampa Bay ranked second highest for contaminants in the fish.