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The project is expected to drive businesses and developers back to the city.

For decades, many communities were deemed too poor for federal flood protection. Now a new section of the federal water law could help them.

How Infrastructure Reform Can Prioritize Ocean Climate Action April 26, 2021, 9:01 am Getty/Mario Tama A woman rides on a tour boat as a container ship is offloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Terminal Island, California, March 2020. Sam Hananel Ari Drennen Introduction and summary Now is the time to invest in the United States’ coastal communities and ocean. Historically, the ocean has been central to the U.S. conception of infrastructure; early cities were built in naturally sheltered bays or on the banks of tidal rivers to provide safe harbors for ships. 1 Today, ocean-based climat...

March 5, 2021 By David Murray “For the first time in 20 years, our infrastructure is out of the D range.” So proclaimed the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), which released its 2021 Report Card for American Infrastructure March 3. This year, the overall grade for the nation’s infrastructure was a C-, up from a D+ four years ago. All the categories either stayed the same or advanced slightly. The new category of stormwater infrastructure, added this year, received a D.  While waterways improved slightly to a D+, p...

January 29, 2021 By Frank McCormack In the final days of the Trump administration, residents of southeast Louisiana received a parting gift from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the form of “new start” money for a $3 billion levee project called “Morganza-to-the-Gulf.” “Today we received confirmation that the Morganza-to-the-Gulf Hurricane Protection project will receive $12.46 million in New Start construction funding,” Chip Kline, chairman of Louisiana’s Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority (CPRA...