Maine receives $1.4 billion in federal funding for coastline protection, restoration

On June 29,  the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration introduced funding from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation  to launch the Local weather Prepared Coasts initiative that can make investments $1.467 billion in Maine’s coastal local weather resiliency. This system is to assist coastal communities construct the long run they need to see by supporting pure infrastructure and coastal ecosystems to extend their resilience to local weather change.

U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King and Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden supported the regulation. The funding is to assist investments in infrastructure that enhance resilience to local weather change and excessive climate occasions. This system may even fund habitat restoration in coastal ecosystems nationwide and promote coastal resilience in underserved coastal communities in addition to these most weak to local weather impacts.  

“For generations, Maine’s coastal communities have powered our financial system and shared the pure great thing about our state with hundreds of thousands. As these gateways to the Atlantic face the rising threats of local weather change, supporting resilient coastal infrastructure is without doubt one of the most essential steps we will take to safe our state’s future,” mentioned Senators Collins and King and Representatives Pingree and Golden, in a information launch. “The Local weather Prepared Coasts initiative is a historic funding in the way forward for our coasts that can shore-up weak infrastructure, defend ecosystems, and strengthen our financial system. Provided that Maine has one of many longest coastlines within the nation, this funding is welcome and important to making sure our most weak communities might be profitable for years to return. We’re glad to see that the Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation continues to fulfill the wants of Maine and supply our state the assist it must thrive.”