Asbury Park replacing its boardwalk in 2018 and 2019

 Austin Bogues reports for the Asbury Park Press:

ASBURY PARK – The boardwalk is getting a face lift.

The city
is soliciting bids for a $400,000 project to replace wooden planks along the boardwalk in 2018 and 2019. 


City Manager Michael Capabianco said the city replaces boardwalk planks each year and that the planks are expected to last between 3 and 7 years, depending on weather and traffic.

He said the work would take place during the day and is not expected to cause major closures on the boardwalk, which sees hundreds of thousands of visitors per year. 


Proposals for the contract are due Thursday at 10:30 a.m. to the city manager’s office. 


The wooden planks aren’t the only thing getting renovated at the boardwalk in the coming months.

In a separate project, Asbury Park Boardwalk developer Madison Marquette is launching new designs for the Fourth Avenue Pavilion and Fifth Avenue Pavilions, which you can see in the video above this story. 


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Trump’s offshore oil rush a disaster for oceans. climate

David  L. VALENTINE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA  Deepwater Horizon surface oil burning, June 2010


Richard Steiner writes in the Huffington Post:

At a time when science says that to stabilize global climate two-thirds of all fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground, Trump is instead pushing a huge increase in fossil fuel production, onshore and offshore.
Expanded drilling, weakened agency oversight, relaxed safety regulations, and oil companies now with more available cash from tax cuts is a “perfect storm” for increased risk of climate disasters and oil spills.
Nowhere is President Trump’s historic assault on our natural environment
more worrisome than his reckless push for increased offshore oil and gas
drilling.
If this dangerous offshore plan moves ahead, we can expect decades of
more catastrophic oil spills, hurricanes, floods, droughts, and wildfires.
In addition to the oil and gas already in production offshore, the U.S.
offshore seabed may hold another 90 billion barrels of oil and 400 trillion
cubic feet of natural gas, or more. Burning this amount of fossil fuel would
add over 50 billion tons of CO2 to the global atmosphere, a “carbon bomb”
comparable to the Alberta tar sands. And much of this CO2 would be
reabsorbed into seawater, increasing ocean acidification.

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Beijing tops China’s ‘green development’ index, but the public doesn’t see it that way

BEIJING (Reuters) – China published its first “green development” index on Tuesday, listing regional governments which promote environmentally friendly development, with Beijing coming out top, though it came second-to-last in a survey of public satisfaction.


The heavily polluted capital was first in the ranking of 31 provinces and regions for 2016, which was published by the National Bureau of Statistics, followed by Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, while Tibet and Xinjiang were the lowest ranked regions.

Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing and is home to several cities with some of the worst air pollution in the world, was ranked 20th.



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Superfund sites are in danger of climate-change flooding, putting millions of Americans at risk



An investigation by the Associated Press found that 327 of the most polluted sites in the country are vulnerable to flooding and sea-level rise spurred by climate change.

The 2 million people who live within a mile of these sites face a serious health threat if floodwaters carry hazardous materials into their homes or contaminate drinking water.
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