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Federal Flood Insurance Will Cover Flood-Related Oil Damage [FEMA Memo]
FEMA has released a memo clarifying that in the event of a declared flood disaster, National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) coverage will apply even if oil is mixed with flood waters. The brief memo...
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Webinar Series Includes Presentation on “Sea Level Rise and Property Rights”
The International Submerged Lands Management has announced its new conference dates. Unlike most conferences, this one takes place on your computer, so those of us with limited travel budgets can still...
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Is Your Community Getting New Flood Maps? Here’s How to Ease the Sting
The fine folks over at Colorado State’s Natural Hazards Center have a neat summary of the National Flood Insurance Program’s Preferred Risk Policies program in their monthly newsletter. The short...
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New Guidance for Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning
The Florida Department of Community Affairs and Florida Division of Emergency Management yesterday released its long-awaited Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning: A Guide for Florida Communities....
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Quick Proof that Building Codes Work [video]
The Institute for Business and Home Safety built a proper hurricane making machine, then constructed two homes in front of it. One was built to standard building codes, the other to their “Fortified...
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Community Passes Forward-Thinking Floodplain Regulation
The community of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts has joined Chatham (PDF) in passing a progressive bylaw that should help guide safe development in their coastal floodplains. Here’s the blurb from the...
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Model Bylaw for Managing Coastal Floodplain Development
Any of us who have worked in more than one coastal community know this simple truth: there’s no one-size-fits-all activity to make communities safer from storms and flooding. Geography and geology...
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Sea Level Rise and Beaches: Not a Pretty Combination
Orrin Pilkey, always a lightening-rod for coastal climate change issues, has written a gloomy forecast for the world’s beaches, and has the photos to justify his positions. He acknowledges that...
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San Francisco Bay Adopts Climate Change Regulations
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission has voted unanimously to pass a development plan for land within 100 feet of the bay’s coastline. The plan—which requires that decisions...
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New NOAA Report Records States’ Coastal No-Build Areas
Today, NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management has released “Protecting the Public Interest through the National Coastal Zone Management Program: How Coastal States and Territories Use...
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