In Nov. 10 letter to a US Army chief, environmental groups want Corps of Engineers to change its approach to flood risk projects amid climate change-fueled sea level rise and intense weather events.
National Grid, which serves New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, is set to be the second U.S. natural-gas utility to use technology advanced by Google Earth, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Colorado State University to boost large-scale methane-leak detection.
Environmental Defense Fund project to map leaky gas mains and call them out for repairs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions meets willing partner in distribution company with lines to upgrade
Building a series of new sediment-diversion structures the lower Mississippi River delta that would be opened during floods to "pulse" large volumes of sediment into eroding parts of southern Louisiana would be an excellent and worthwhile use of limited federal dollars, a group of engineers and coastal scientists said in a report issued in mid-April.
