Officials from coast to coast have long sought funding to restore natural habitats that are essential to beach communities.
built to clean up the surrounding watershed and contemplating all that could be done if she could get her hands on federal funding to expand the work.
Officials from coast to coast have long sought funding to restore natural habitats that are essential to beach communities, as floods wreak havoc in the East and rising sea levels increasingly threaten the West. By 2050, sea levels are expected to rise by 1 foot or more on average, increasing as much in that time as they have in the past century.
Escalating climate threats have prompted a continuing debate among policymakers and experts about how best to guard against devastating damage, between those who prioritize building infrastructure like sea walls — sometimes called “gray infrastructure” — and those who favor nature-based solutions, or so-called green infrastructure.
Tom Cors, a government relations official at the Nature Conservancy, said the resilience funding in the climate law, in combination with resources in the infrastructure law passed last year, represented the most significant influx of money for green infrastructure, the latest move in a shift that began about a decade ago.
The funding from the new climate law will be distributed to NOAA, which is expected to provide funding through contracts, grants and other agreements to local, state and tribal governments, nonprofits and institutions of higher education. The law specified that the money should go to projects that support natural resources in coastal and marine communities, including wetland restoration or restoring sea grass and oyster beds.
The moment a city constructs a levee or a sea wall, it “is immediately deteriorating,” Hutzel said. “When you work with nature, you are building a system that the natural processes are maintaining.”
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