Archive | June, 2022

NOAA Announces Emergency Coastal Resilience Grants

In partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, NOAA today announced the award of $25.2 million in emergency grants to help coastal communities affected by storms and wildfires increase resilience to future events.  An additional $4.9 million in additional funding will be leveraged for the projects. Projects will be implemented in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, [...]

Comments Sought on Gulf of Mexico Aquaculture Programmatic EIS

NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service today announced that it is seeking comments by Monday, Aug. 1 on its intention to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement to evaluate alternatives for identifying one or more Aquaculture Opportunity Areas in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. In announcing the request for comments, NMFS noted that the National Centers [...]