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Rice’s whales are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act and listed as endangered by the federal government

Awards will support 36 Tribes across 17 states, bolstering fish and wildlife conservation.

The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to reconsider the Chevron doctrine, which instructs courts to defer to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute that US Congress delegated to the agency to administer. Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce, Case No. 22-1219 (Supr. Ct., Oct. 13, 2023) (certiorari granted).

Several agencies will get a part of $155 million from the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council. The money is aimed at helping agencies improve how they review and decide on applications for infrastructure construction. For details, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with the council’s Executive Director Eric Beightel.

Small businesses must submit applications by December 20, 2023

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced the allocation of more than $54 million in public assistance funds to the Puerto Rico Ports Authority for repairs and hazard mitigation at several transportation facilities across the island.

As the Clean Water Act turns 51 today, environmental advocates scramble to understand a new judicial interpretation that leaves more than half of the country’s 118 million acres of wetlands unprotected, including the swamps of Acadiana and key waterfowl habitat.

NOAA is awarding $16.8 million to 32 organizations working across 10 projects to conduct collaborative ecosystem science research that will be used by natural resource managers in the Gulf of Mexico.

The determination will help ocean commercial fishermen in Oregon recover from significant economic losses in 2018, 2019, and 2020 from declining salmon populations

Last month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) unveiled a new program to designate what it calls “Community Disaster Resilience Zones” and announced 483 such zones across the U.S. Far from being resilient, these places have a particularly high risk of natural disasters, many of which are the result of global warming.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. - Manatees may become an endangered species again.

A Chance to Preserve Grandmother Ocean

The decision is the first step toward endangered species protections for manatees.

The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has announced members for two new task forces that will be focused on the development of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration (CCUS) in the U.S.

As government agencies try to deal with a myriad of challenges, it may be more important than ever that leaders formulate resiliency strategies to ensure they can continue to provide services to the public

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law strengthens and protects communities, enhances natural habitats

Coastal states with more “high-capacity” local governments tend to win more of the competitive BRIC grants, a Headwaters Economics analysis finds.

WASHINGTON — From Fort Myers to Central Florida to Daytona Beach, Hurricane Ian cut a wide swath of destruction unlike anything most Floridians had ever experienced.

As questions loom over the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s ability to fund disaster recovery efforts, people whose homes were damaged or destroyed by recent wildfires and storms are trying to make their way through the difficult process of securing financial aid.

In conjunction with White House Summit on Building Climate Resilient Communities, Administration announces more than $500 million in additional investment for resilience

The Chumash tribe had advocated for California’s central coast to be protected, but a draft management plan left out the stretch they had hoped would be protected

The Global School is proud to be part of the Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network (CCAN), which was initially awarded $6 million in federal funding in 2022. CCAN, a NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership (CAP) seeks to address climate change issues by bringing together a multidisciplinary team of universities, agencies, and non-governmental organizations serving the United States territories of Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands (St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John).

Inflation Reduction Act will support NOAA’s efforts to accelerate growth in the ocean and coastal technology and information economy

North Atlantic right whales, which calve off the Georgia coast, have fewer than 350 individuals remaining

Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) announced the award of three separate Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Multiple-Award Contracts (MAC) from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).