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Residents of Shishmaref seek help from Washington for coastal erosion
2014-01-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Tony Weyiouanna remembers a time when people played beach baseball in his village on Alaska's storm-battered western coast. Now, there's barely enough room for hopscotch on Shishmaref's eroding waterfront. Erosion in the village and other coastal Alaska communities is an escalating problem blamed on climate change that has affected storm patterns in the region. The impact on their environment was the message carried by Weyiouanna and four other residents from the Inupiat Eskimo community who traveled...
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DEQ gearing up for Coastal restoration
2014-01-07 06:59:18| Waste Management - Topix.net
Trudy Fisher, executive director of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, believes Coast residents will see more environmental projects started in 2014 with millions coming into the state as a result of the BP oil catastrophe.
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Weather warnings: avoid coastal or riverside paths, say agencies
2014-01-03 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: People are being strongly advised not to walk on coastal paths and promenades or near floodwater as high winds continued to batter southern and western parts of the United Kingdom. The rivers Stour in Dorset and Severn in Gloucestershire burst their banks, sandbag defences were set up near Belfast docks and Scotland is bracing itself for blasts of up to 80mph later in the day as storm surges that flooded towns and villages in England moved northwards. Another bout of severe weather was expected...
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Canada: Nothern Gateway Pipeline Not Popular Among B.C. Coastal Businesses
2014-01-02 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: As far as business groups go, the Tofino-Long Beach Chamber of Commerce isnt the biggest or most powerful organization in British Columbia, but its members are still taking a very vocal and public stand against the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline. Their motive is simple: past experience. In late December 1988, fuel from an 850,000 litre spill in Grays Harbour, Wash., made its way north to the west coast of Vancouver Island, fouling local beaches, killing thousands of seabirds and closing commercial...
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Hearing: Which court should hear coastal lawsuit?
2013-12-18 15:19:42| Energy - Topix.net
The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East wants U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to send the case back to Orleans Parish Civil District Court, where the board filed it in July.
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