Who Pays For Eroding Coastlines?
Should taxpayers pay to safeguard coastal residents from the ocean or should beach towns shovel the sand themselves?
"Although the Clinton administration made the first of several failed efforts to end federal funding of "beach renourishment" in 1995, a special order from President Bush to cut the $120 million-a-year program is heating up the rhetoric again. Now, for the first time, dozens of small coastal towns are joining a pending lawsuit to stop the gambit. The debate has been fueled by this summer's record landings of four major hurricanes, which destroyed miles of beaches and exposed the weaknesses - and costs - of coastal economies."
Thanks to Chris Steins
Published on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 in
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