A Senate committee on Wednesday approved a bill that authorizes the $31 billion Ike Dike project, advancing the sweeping proposal to protect the Houston and Galveston region from storm surge toward a vote on the Senate floor.
Texas' coastal marshes absorb large quantities of climate-warming carbon dioxide. The Texas Coastal Exchange lets individuals and companies offset their carbon emissions by paying landowners to preserve these marshes.
The federal government unexpectedly cut funding to a climate resilience study in the NYC area. The funding cut came six weeks after the president mocked the study on Twitter.
