For years, the city of Miami Beach had approached the concept of sea-level rise much like that of other coastal communities: with a lot of “talk talk talk” but not much action, says Bruce Mowry, city engineer.
Hampton Roads in Virginia—seven communities and 11 federal facilities—is facing one of the worst combinations of erosion, subsidence and sea-level rise in the nation.
Twenty-five years ago, German contracting and industrial giant Bauer AG, based near Munich, formed a corporate unit to contend with contamination on its local construction sites. Now it's a $200-million-plus global business.
Companies held their own in 2016 even as an election, an uncertain post-Brexit Europe and still-sluggish oil prices loomed over the environmental sector.
The Top 200 Environmental Firms held their own in 2016, even as the election of Donald Trump, an uncertain post-Brexit Europe and still-sluggish oil prices loomed over the environmental marketplace.
When FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) expires next month, the pressure will be on Congress to reauthorize the program, ideally by adopting long-delayed reforms.