10/31/2022A decade after Sandy, Manhattan’s flood barrier is finally in sight — sort ofSalon: The “Big U” shows how climate adaptation can succeed. It also shows how hard it is When Superstorm Sandy made landfall on October…
10/27/2022Hurricane Sandy Devastated Coney Island 10 Years Ago. So Why Has NYC Added Almost 2,000 Homes to the Area Since?The City: Gleaming new high-rise towers, built to the latest standards, stand alongside older family homes, badly in need of retrofitting. C…
10/24/2022Buy-In for Buyouts: 10 Years After Sandy, New York Considers New Funding for Voluntary RelocationCity Limits: As the 10-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy approaches, increased frequency and intensity of storms has led to conversations…
10/24/2022A Plan to Save a Beloved Park From Flooding Has Angered Its Biggest FansNY Times: A resiliency plan would tear down Wagner Park in Lower Manhattan and rebuild it on higher ground, but some residents say it goes t…
10/24/2022Hurricane Sandy: Here’s a 10-year timeline of post-storm resiliency projectsSI Advance: Ten years ago Hurricane Sandy ravaged Staten Island’s shoreline, leaving damage that would take years to repair. In the years fo…
10/06/2022The Living Breakwaters Could Be NJ’s Newest Defense Against Storm SurgeNew Jersey Digest Magazine: Residents of New Jersey are no strangers to storm surge. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy battered the coastal towns of …
09/15/2022New York’s $4.2B environmental bond act getting big boost from advocatesNY Daily News: Advocates are spending big to back a state plan to borrow $4.2 billion to help brace New York’s aging infrastructure against …
08/30/2022Army Corps prefers small flood gates to large storm surge barriersNY1: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers quietly announced earlier this month that it favors a plan to build several small flood gates at the m…
07/13/2022Make NYC a sponge: Report calls for green infrastructure to protect from extreme rainfallSI Advance: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida barreled through New York City, Staten Island saw levels of rainfall not witnessed in recent …
07/12/2022City’s latest plan to face down flooding: Inflatable dams, sandbags to at-risk homesNY1: Darinko Mrvica and his family have lived in his well-manicured brick home in Whitestone, Queens, for 40 years. The basement floods abou…
07/09/2022City Releases ‘Band-Aid’ Plan for Coping With Heavy RainfallCity Limits: The Adams administration released a plan Thursday to address heavy rainfall in the immediate lead-up to and aftermath of an ext…
07/08/2022Rainproofing New York City is an achievable goalNY Daily News Opinion, by Amy Chester and Lot Locher: Last summer, back-to-back heavy rainfalls broke two records 10 days apart, leaving 13 …
06/16/2022‘We’re going to help people’Longmont Times-Call: The Boulder County commissioners this week approved an initial slate of 10 projects to address disparities exposed by t…
06/06/2022Will New Yorkers Vote “Green” This Fall? The $4.2 Billion Environmental Bond Act, ExplainedExaminer Plus: In November, New York voters have the opportunity to greenlight a landmark $4.2 Environmental Bond Act, which, if approved, w…
05/12/2022Cities Brace for Apocalyptic Flooding As New Age of Super Storms DawnsNewsweek: There are a million ways to die in New York City but drowning in a rainstorm is not something many New Yorkers have ever worried a…
05/09/2022Longmont early childhood village part of American Rescue Act proposalsLongmont Leader: A $1.5 million infusion of “seed money” for an early childhood community village in southeast Longmont is one of the propos…