Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 30 September 2024

Hyundai water use – seeking permits to withdraw 6.625 Million gallons per day from Floridan aquifer along with $2.1 Billion in tax deferments, subsidized construction costs – refuses to disclose details of “industry trade secrets” on water use

·?????? https://thecurrentga.org/2024/09/20/hyundais-water-use-what-does-it-take-to-build-an-ev/

·?????? https://thecurrentga.org/2024/09/20/how-hyundais-water-demand-stacks-up/

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Atolls are not permanent features but humans live on them regardless of natural processes that limit accretion – Tuvalu is less than 2 meters in elevation but the 9 atolls are occupied by 11,000 people – futility of constructing sea walls & barriers

·?????? https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/sinking-tuvalu-fights-keep-maritime-101217887.html

·?????? Understanding atolls:? https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(23)00298-7

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US F&W proposes expanding habitat protections for ailing Florida manatees

·?????? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26092024/florida-manatees-habitat-protections/

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16 MW floating solar project in Guangdong Province, China, appears to have survived the onslaught of Super Typhoon Capricorn

·?????? https://cleantechnica.com/2024/09/23/floating-solar-project-withstands-super-typhoon-capricorn/

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Meso- and Micro-plastics along the coastline of Germany

·?????? https://phys.org/news/2024-09-citizen-scientists-microplastics-entire-german.html

·?????? Paper:? https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2024.1458565/full

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Re-establishing oyster filtration reefs to reduce waste streams

·?????? https://cleantechnica.com/2024/09/24/the-world-is-your-oyster-efforts-speed-up-to-reduce-waste-streams-by-reestablishing-oyster-filtration-reefs/

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Proposed $1.35B Woodland Biofuels plant at Port of South Louisiana

·?????? https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/proposed-1-35-billion-investment-in-southeast-louisiana-would-establish-large-scale-renewable-natural-gas-plant-and-green-hydrogen-facility

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Capitola Wharf reopened after storm damage repairs

·?????? https://www.ksbw.com/article/capitola-wharf-grand-reopening-storm-damage/62353941

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Residents plagued with unexplained & acute illness associated with pollution in Tijuana River in Southern California – who is really responsible for cause and remediation?

·?????? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/some-in-this-california-beach-town-insist-the-tijuana-river-is-poisoning-them-officials-disagree/ar-AA1rf0eU

·?????? https://phys.org/news/2024-09-people-insist-tijuana-river-poisoning.html

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Removal of human marine debris benefits endangered Hawaiian monk seals * other marine life

·?????? https://phys.org/news/2024-09-marine-debris-benefits-hawaiian-monk.html

·?????? Paper:? https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado2834

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Coastal resilience & sea level rise workshop report

·?????? https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/woods-hole-oceanographic-institutions-marine-policy-center-releases-coastal-resilience-and-sea-level-rise-workshop-report/

·?????? Report:? https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/45504c8c-b136-4a29-8093-2611964a4a67/content

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A semi-truck full of lithium-ion batteries is burning & shut down ports of Los Angeles & Long Beach

· https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-truck-full-of-batteries-has-been-burning-for-almost-a-full-day-shutting-down-ports-in-la/ar-AA1rl2sm

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