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During remarks at the Department of the Interior’s Territorial Climate and Infrastructure Workshop in Hawaii last Friday, assistant secretary for International and Insular Affairs Carmen G. Cantor and White House Council on Environmental Quality chair Brenda Mallory announced $12 million in key investments from the Inflation Reduction Act for climate change planning, mitigation, adaptation and resilience for the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Congress has passed a bill that significantly increases federal funding to coral reef restoration projects and directs more federal money toward local coral reef restoration projects like ones already being

The report given by a multi-agency working group aids communities looking for financial support for projects to decrease flood risks by restoring coral reefs for storm hazard mitigation and climate adaptation

Adm. Tim Gallaudet, Host of ASPN's American Blue Economy Podcast, focuses on NOAA's priorities

In many instances, marine conservation directly supports the American “blue economy.”