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Darden restaurants, inc. makes $500,000 gift-in-kind donation to habitat for humanity restore resale outlets

Darden Restaurants, Inc. (DRI) today announced the company has made a $500,000 gift-in-kind donation to Habitat for Humanity International by contributing furnishings from 85 of the company's recently remodeled restaurant locations across the country. These furnishings will be sold at local Habitat for Humanity ReStore resale outlets. More than 300 of the company's Red Lobster, Olive Garden and ...

Feb. 8, 2011

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Wildlands Completes 186-acre Fish Habitat Restoration at Liberty Island

Wildlands, Inc. announces the completion of habitat restoration at the Liberty Island Conservation Bank in Yolo County, California. The completion of construction caps a three year entitlement and permitting process with federal, state and local agencies in one of the most complex restoration projects in Wildlands 20-year history. The 186-acre restoration project focused on tidal aquatic ...

Apr. 19, 2011

By Wildlands, Inc.

Habitat restoration is hands-on effort for Annapolis scientist

On September 10, 2009, Annapolis scientist Dr. Peter Jensen participated in some hands-on restoration by planting native grasses during the Hail Cove Living Shoreline event, a collaborative effort to reduce shore erosion and create marsh and reef habitat for waterfowl and species such as blue crabs, terrapins, fish, oysters, and mussels in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay. Sponsored in part by the ...

Nov. 4, 2009

By Integral Consulting Inc.

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 ...

Mar. 22, 2018

By Restore America`s Estuaries

ACWA Comments on Release of BDCP Documents

Timothy Quinn, executive director of the statewide Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA), issued the following statement today regarding the release of draft documents analyzing key elements and effects of the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan. "ACWA applauds the steps the Brown Administration is taking as part of its commitment to an open, transparent process, including the release of ...

Feb. 29, 2012

By ACWA Services Ltd

Boeing Digs into Duwamish as Part of Wildlife Habitat Restoration

Boeing [NYSE:BA] has begun dredging the waterway near its former Plant 2 facility, a major step in the company's commitment to restore natural habitat along the industrial Lower Duwamish Waterway. While the city of Seattle, King County, the Port of Seattle, Boeing and many other businesses along the waterway will be involved in the overall cleanup of the Lower Duwamish, the Plant 2 work starts ...

Jan. 11, 2013

By The Boeing Company

EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson to announce Great Lakes grants in Green Bay today

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will announce EPA’s first Great Lakes Restoration Initiative competitive grants at an event today in Green Bay, Wis. She will be joined in Green Bay by Sen. Russ Feingold, Rep. Steve Kagan, and Jeff Skelding, Director, Healing Our Waters Coalition. The first of the Wisconsin Great Lakes Restoration Grants (totalling ...

Sep. 7, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Meeting on grand calumet river cleanup June 2

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and three other federal and state agencies will host a meeting June 2 to update the public on a contaminated sediment cleanup planned for the East Chicago and Hammond, Indiana, area. The cleanup, funded under the Great Lakes Legacy Act, involves the Grand Calumet River and Roxana Marsh, near the West Branch of the Grand Calumet. Officials from the U.S. ...

May 26, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA awards $467,000 brownfields grant to Solano County Water Agency

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the Solano County Water Agency, in collaboration with the Westside Sacramento Integrated Water Management Group, will receive $467,378 in federal grant funds to assess contamination from abandoned mines in Lake, Napa, Solano, and Yolo counties, Calif. This coalition of counties are among 147 communities nationwide receiving funding to ...

May 28, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Dudek Selected To Provide Environmental Services To the City of San Diego for Public Works Projects

Dudek has been selected by the City of San Diego to provide as-needed environmental consulting for a three-year period. The contract is valued at $4 million. Dudek will perform a broad array of environmental services, including design and environmental permitting, for the Public Works Department's engineering and capital projects group, which manages capital improvement projects for water, ...

Jun. 12, 2013

By Dudek

MEDIA ADVISORY: great lakes restoration initiative grants For Northeastern Minnesota announced in Duluth, Minn. (MN)

WHO: Cameron Davis, Senior Advisor to the EPA Administrator (Great Lakes). U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar. Suzanne Hanson, Regional Manager, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Lucinda Johnson, Director, Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota. Angie Miller, Executive Director, Community Action Duluth. WHAT: Announcement of three federal grants, totaling about $1.2 ...

Oct. 18, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Award to Children’s Defense Fund Will Advance Environmental Stewardship on the Big Island

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded an environmental education grant of $200,000 to the Children’s Defense Fund for their “Mauka to Makai” project designed to improve environmental education in their summer learning centers and partner schools on the Big Island. The “Mauka to Makai” (Mountain to Sea) project will incorporate environmental themes ...

Aug. 27, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Lois Autié, P.E. Joins Haley & Aldrich as Senior Project Manager

Autié Will Apply Expertise in Sediment Remedial Design, Permitting and Construction Management for Fortune 1000 clients Oakland, CA (March 28, 2013) – Environmental and engineering firm Haley & Aldrich today announced that Lois Autié has joined the firm as a senior project manager. With more than 20 years of experience, Autié brings significant expertise in all ...

Mar. 28, 2013

By Haley & Aldrich, Inc.

Wind, salt and water are leading indicators of land degradation in Abu Dhabi desert lands

Desert environments are characterized by poor vegetative cover, strong winds, dry, non-cohesive sandy soils, and hyper-arid conditions. In this context, the land resources of Abu Dhabi Emirate in the United Arab Emirates are subjected to various land degradation stresses, including wind erosion, salinization, waterlogging, landfilling, and overgrazing. To sustain the land resources of Abu Dhabi ...

May 7, 2009

By Harvard Apparatus

EPA Announces `Cleanup Complete` at Sheboygan River Area of Concern

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the completion of all dredging and habitat restoration projects required to remove the Sheboygan River "Area of Concern" from a list of toxic hot spots identified in the 1987 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. "Thanks to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative -- and our dedicated federal, state and local partners -- we have finished ...

Jun. 14, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Hess fined $1.1m for Hudson River estuary pollution

Hess Corporation will bring 65 gasoline stations and oil storage facilities into compliance with state requirements and fund an important habitat restoration project in the Hudson River Estuary under an agreement announced by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis. The consent order also requires a penalty of $1.1 million for storage violations at ...

Mar. 4, 2008

By NYSDEC - New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

EPA great lakes restoration initiative grants awarded for New York (NY)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is making a $20 million investment in the Great Lakes through New York State, targeting the most significant environmental problems facing the Great Lakes. These grants to 17 organizations are part of a larger group of projects throughout Great Lakes states being funded under President Barack Obama’s Great Lakes Restoration initiative. “These ...

Sep. 23, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Gulf ecosystem restoration task force creates citizens’ advisory committee, releases restoration priorities / EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson, joined by CEQ chair Nancy Sutley, other task force members, hold official meeting today in Mobile, Ala.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson convened an official meeting of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force today in Mobile, Alabama. During the meeting, the task force created a citizens’ advisory committee to help guide the group’s efforts and released a strategy background document outlining the priorities of the ongoing gulf restoration. The ...

May 6, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

New plan offers an effective, affordable package of California Water Supply and bay-delta fisheries solutions

Investing in a broad portfolio of Bay-Delta water solutions can save Californians billions of dollars in costs while increasing water supply and strengthening protections for the ailing delta ecosystem and its fisheries, according to a new proposal released today by business and conservation groups in advance of the draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan expected next month. The Bay-Delta is the ...

Jan. 16, 2013

By Natural Resources Defense Council

EPA announces funding to restore lake michigan and put people back to work

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced $592,400 in funding for a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative project in Huron Manistee National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service project will help to restore Lake Michigan and put people back to work, using a conservation corps model to hire unemployed workers to improve habitat. The project was selected from 44 proposals totaling almost ...

Oct. 5, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency