Sentences with phrase «more storm resilient»

Vice President Biden and Governor Cuomo held the press conference in the Red Room at the Capital building to discuss the work planned to make New York's infrastructure systems more storm resilient, reflecting on the devastation brought on by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, and Tropical Storms Irene and Lee in 2011.

Not exact matches

«Sandy encouraged us to be strategic about planning future developments, so that they were more resilient against future storms,» she says.

This year, the State is reimagining New York for a new climate reality, building back better and more resilient after the major storms from the last few years, Governor Cuomo said.

In his new role, Mr. Gennaro will further DECs efforts to prepare and make New York City more resilient to meet the challenges associated with climate change and to rebuild after recent storm events.

Restoring electricity is a high priority, but officials say it's important to make the grid more resilient to withstand major storms.

A task force convened by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to assess the damage done by Superstorm Sandy has released a proposal to overhaul the city's building code with the goal of ensuring buildings are more storm - resilient, Crain's reported.

His argument: «For the next 10 years, we can either have an aging, dirty plant or — what I think is preferable — a repowered plant that is more efficient, friendlier to the marine ecosystem and resilient to storms.»

Many communities have, by necessity, begun to be more climate - resilient, said Michael Seibert, the mayor of Joplin, Mo., where 158 people died in a 2011 tornado, the costliest such storm in U.S. history.

«Reducing humanity's impact on our planet should be pursued as a matter of urgency, but more emphasis must also be placed on being resilient to individual weather events, as this year's storms in Britain have so devastatingly shown.»

To resolve these challenges, the Lancet - Rockefeller commission offered several proposals, including diversifying diets, making hospitals and health infrastructure more resilient to environmental shocks like storms, and diverting fossil fuel subsidies toward health care.

As a physical structure, they function as a breakwater during violent storms — far more resilient than anything man - made.

Rather than creating fuel security problems, New England's clean energy trajectory will benefit homes and businesses by reducing dependence on fossil fuels and making the grid more resilient, including during winter storms.

The risk of disruptive events will also increase in the future as droughts, heat waves, more intense storms, and increasingly severe wildfires become more frequent due to global warming — increasing the need for resilient, clean technologies.

Hundreds of millions more were spent to make the damaged systems more resilient, and better able to cope with similar storms in the future.

Rather than focusing on big - ticket solutions such as storm - surge barriers, Rosenzweig calls for a range of initiatives, from increasing redundancy in the electric grid to sealing off tunnels and making coastal areas more resilient to flooding.

A more resilient energy infrastructure: Because CHP systems produce power on site, they eliminate the need for transmission lines to get that electricity from the power plant to the customer and can keep the lights, heating and cooling on during a storm.

Finally, a robust infrastructure program will allow Massachusetts to build more resilient transportation facilities, adapting to the risks of climate change such as heavy storms and sea level rise.

Marine protected areas can also make ecosystems more resilient to storms and other environmental stresses and — amazingly — the impacts of climate change.

It is vulnerable to high winds and ice storms when in the form of suspended overhead cables and cell phone transmission masts, but is reasonably resilient when buried underground, although burial is significantly more expensive.

And now, with shovels still scraping away at the mess of the last storm, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has filed legislation that would authorize over $ 1.4 billion in investments to make the Commonwealth more resilient in the face of climate impacts.

Adaptation strategies include rebuilding more resilient structures and infrastructure following severe storm events.

Daniel Wallach, executive director of Greensburg GreenTown, says half of the 300 homes rebuilt in town were erected to be more storm - resilient, more energy - efficient or both.