Maine County Rebuilds Its Destroyed Dunes. It’s Just the Start to Save the Coastline March 4, 2026 By EMMETT GARTNER/The Maine Monitor A crew guided a York County barge equipped with a giant sea vacuum across the waters of Wells Harbor last...
Louisiana Cancels $3B Gulf Coast Repair Funded by Deepwater Horizon Settlement July 22, 2025 By Jack Brook Louisiana last week canceled a $3 billion repair of disappearing Gulf coastline, funded by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill...
Environmental Group Turns to Oyster Shells to Rebuild Sinking Louisiana Coastline October 3, 2024 By Safura Syed, Verite News Jonathan Phillips says he thinks about Louisiana’s disappearing coastline every day. As a commercial fisherman and member of the Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha...
Removing US Subsidies Curbed Building in Climate Risk Zones, Study Finds August 6, 2024 By Leslie Kaufman The US Congress passed the Coastal Barrier Resources Act in 1982 to preserve relatively undeveloped waterfront areas as natural buffer...
New Hampshire to Receive $20M Grant to Help Reconstruct Eroded Seawalls April 24, 2024 New Hampshire is getting a $20 million federal grant to help reconstruct coastal seawalls eroded by storms and flooding and...
Northeast Warned to Expect More Floods Like This Winter’s February 20, 2024 By Patrick Whittle After back-to-back storms lashed the Northeast in January, rental properties Haim Levy owns in coastal Hampton, New Hampshire, were hammered...
New Jersey Denies Bulkhead for Shore Town With Wrecked Sand Dunes February 6, 2024 By Wayne Parry New Jersey is refusing to allow a shore town whose sand dunes have washed away in places to build a...
New Jersey Allows Emergency Erosion Fixes in Defiant Town May 22, 2023 By Wayne Parry New Jersey environmental officials will allow a shore town to carry out emergency repairs to its badly eroded beachfront, even...
Judge Allows New Jersey Town’s Suit to Recover $21M Spent on Beach Restoration February 3, 2023 By Wayne Parry A New Jersey beach town that defied state environmental authorities and fixed its dunes that were seriously eroded by a...
Beach Town, State of New Jersey Exchange Lawsuits in Sand Dunes Battle January 11, 2023 By Wayne Parry NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A beach town that is defying New Jersey’s order not to shore up its eroding...