Sentences with phrase «projects against the storm»
One week after the leak, the Trump administration announced plans to rescind an Obama - era rule requiring the federal government to provide $ 10 billion in annual funding to go toward storm - proofing infrastructure projects against the storm surges and heavy rains that accompany 90 percent of U.S. natural disasters.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - After years of planning, the money is finally flowing in for a buried seawall project along the East Shore of Staten Island to protect against future Hurricane Sandy - like storms.
Last year, Skelos sought to hang on to the majority leader post after a criminal complaint was filed against him and his son for conspiring to aid AbTech's pursuit of contracts for storm water projects.
Youths under the El - Rufai Campaign Organization Group and Continuity Project 2019, Tuesday, in Kaduna stormed the State House of Assembly, protesting against the APC led government's...
Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns, heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.
According to de Boer, the fund is intended to finance climate change projects including sea walls to guard against expanding oceans, early warning systems for extreme events, improved water supplies for drought areas, training in new agricultural techniques and the conservation and restoration of mangroves to protect people from storms.
As Stamford is a coastal city, its 2030 District will also implement a proactive vision to ensure resiliency against projected sea - level rise and storm surge.
Balanced against this, higher resolution modelling studies typically project substantial increases in the frequency of the most intense cyclones, and increases of the order of 20 % in the precipitation rate within 100 km of the storm centre.