coastal restoration News
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Pallone introduces bill to create living shorelines grant program
Today, Rep. Frank Pallone (NJ-06) introduced the Living Shorelines Act, which creates a grant program to assist states, localities, and other organizations in constructing and monitoring living shorelines projects along their coastlines. Restore America’s Estuaries (RAE) commends Rep. Pallone for his continued leadership on coastal restoration and especially living shorelines. Living ...
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NOAA-Funded Toolkit Empowers Citizen-Driven Coastal Actions
Today, Restore America’s Estuaries and NOAA launched Coastal Restoration Toolkit ( restoreyourcoast.org ), a new website that provides resources and project examples for both citizen-driven and organizational coastal restoration projects. Since nearly 50% of the U.S. population live in coastal regions, the potential to support a diverse range of users and inspire much-needed actions is ...
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Mississippi Coalition for Vietnamese-American Fisher Folks and Families Receives Second Place Gulf Guardian Award in the Environmental Justice/Cultural Diversity Category
The Gulf of Mexico Program recently announced the Mississippi Coalition for Vietnamese-American Fisher Folks and Families (MSCVAFF) will receive a Second Place 2013 Gulf Guardian Award in the Environmental Justice/Cultural Diversity Category. The awards ceremony will be held on June 26, 2013, at the Tampa Bay Grand Hyatt beginning at 6PM. The MSCVAFF Coastal Restoration: Education and Community ...
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Today: EPA chief leads final public meeting of the gulf coast ecosystem restoration task force, in Biloxi, Mississippi
The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, created by President Obama by executive order to develop a comprehensive restoration strategy for the Gulf of Mexico, will hold its final meeting in Biloxi, Mississippi today. It will be held at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum & Convention Center from 10:00 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. and is open to the public. The meeting will be followed by ...
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EPA Protects Louisiana Coastal Waters
Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded $2,502,401 to the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana to improve coastal wetlands in Louisiana. The project will create 300 acres of barrier marsh and nourish 130 acres of developing marsh near Bayou Moreau using dredged material from the Gulf of Mexico. This project is funded through the Coastal Wetlands Planning, ...
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ERS Delivers Restorative Planting for Louisiana Coastal Restoration Projects
Ecological Restoration Services, L.L.C., (ERS), a subsidiary of Resource Environmental Solutions, L.L.C. (RES), has successfully completed restorative planting projects along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. ERS won competitive bids from the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources to grow, store, deliver and install native Louisiana vegetation species to enable and ensure coastal protection following ...
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Mississippi River Research Paves way for Holistic River Management Approach
Conservation groups today expressed support for an agreement between Louisiana and federal officials to conduct an investigation focusing on the dynamic nature of the Lower Mississippi River and the interplay between restoration, navigation and flood control. Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) will collaborate on the ...
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EPA Awards $4 Million to Protect America’s Estuaries and Coastal Waters
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a $4 million cooperative agreement with Restore America’s Estuaries to help fund projects supporting National Estuary Program coastal watersheds and estuaries. Restore America’s Estuaries will operate a competition that provides entities from across the country an opportunity to apply for funding for projects that will ...
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Great Lakes announces receipt of $88 million award for coastal restoration on the gulf coast
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (“Great Lakes”) (NASDAQ:GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of environmental and remediation services, announced today the receipt of an $88 million award for Phase I of the Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MsCIP) Comprehensive Barrier Island Restoration. MsCIP was initiated in ...
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Open Space Council for the St. Louis Region Receives $25K Grant for Lower Meramec Watershed Stewardship, Education
The non-profit Open Space Council for the St. Louis Region has received a $25,000 grant from the national 2014 Five Star and Urban Waters Restoration Program to support hands-on stewardship and watershed education efforts aimed at restoring 500 miles of five rivers in Missouri’s Lower Meramec Watershed. The Five Star and Urban Waters Restoration Program began in 1999 as a partnership among ...
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Oil Spill Recovery Projects Proposed by Louisiana Deserve Prompt Review
Conservation groups today expressed support for Louisiana's swift action to identify and propose potential restoration projects that qualify for BP's $1 billion down payment toward the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) stemming from the unprecedented Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Louisiana's release of its project list today is an important step toward getting restoration projects ...
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WESTON Volunteers Help Revitalize New Orleans City Park
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana—November 3, 2010—Approximately 100 volunteers from Weston Solutions, Inc. (WESTON®) are working today to revitalize Storyland children’s park in New Orleans City Park. The volunteer effort provides the firm’s key front line leaders an opportunity to put into action one of the company’s core values—Making a Difference. The project will ...
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ARCADIS Wins Two Environmental Restoration Contracts in Louisiana
ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the leading pure play global engineering and consultancy firm, has been awarded two contracts to help restore Louisiana’s coastal wetlands. For both projects, ARCADIS US will focus on diverting valuable sediments and nutrients from the Mississippi River to start rebuilding the thousands of acres of land now being lost every year. The two projects together ...
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Congress supports funding for critical coastal and ocean conservation programs
Congress unveiled its $1.3 trillion spending bill late Wednesday that resists deep cuts to critical environmental programs. Many programs focused on coastal habitat restoration and conservation within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) saw strong ...
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EPA and Federal Partners Announce $5 Million for Southeast New England Program for Coastal Watershed Restoration
EPA today joined state and local dignitaries to announce $5 million in federal funding to continue efforts of the Southeast New England Program for Coastal Watershed Restoration. The program brings together innovation and partnerships to apply an ecosystem approach to protecting and restoring the coastal watersheds of southeast New England from Westerly, R.I. to Chatham, Mass., including ...
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EPA Awards $100,000 to the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority to Reduce Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) $100,000 to reduce hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. This area in the northern Gulf of Mexico is known as the ‘dead zone.’ The funds will be used to develop a statewide nutrient reduction strategy for Louisiana which adopts strategic elements identified in action plans of the ...
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EPA Grant Helps Protect and Restore Louisiana Coast
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently awarded $362,213 to the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana to help design a project implemented under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) program. The project will create and nourish 634 acres of marshland in the Shell Beach area off of Lake Borgne, southeast of New Orleans. The marsh will ...
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Mississippi River Delta Restoration Campaign Launches New Website
New site goes live today WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Conservation groups today launched a new website, www.MississippiRiverDelta.org, focused on restoring one of America's greatest natural resources, the Mississippi River Delta. The site houses scientific information, public policy analysis, cultural and historical summaries, and Delta Dispatches, a news blog about ...
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WESTON Wins U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Contract for Post-Katrina Sampling, Analysis, and Characterization of New Orleans Inner Harbor Navigational Canal
NEW ORLEANS - Weston Solutions, Inc. (WESTON®) announced today the award of a $4.1 million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, for Sampling, Analysis, and Characterization of Post-Hurricane Katrina Inner Harbor Navigational Canal (IHNC), New Orleans, Louisiana. This contract will complete the sampling and analysis started in July 2005 and interrupted by Hurricane ...
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86% of Louisiana Voters Support Adoption of 2012 Coastal Master Plan
Eighty-six percent of Louisiana voters say they want their legislators to approve the state's 2012 Coastal Master Plan, according to a new poll released today. The plan lays out a 50-year vision for protecting and restoring the coast, including increased hurricane risk reduction for coastal communities and reconnecting the Mississippi River with disappearing coastal wetlands. Overwhelming ...
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