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More Living Shorelines Could Come to States Bordering Chesapeake Bay If the Region’s Senators Get Their Way

Inside Climate News July 01, 2026 1 views

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As Virginia, Maryland and Delaware face more floods, their elected officials want to use federal dollars to deploy natural mitigation techniques.

Norfolk, Virginia, has remained the poster child for cities facing land subsidence and flooding in the country, struggling through an onslaught of storm surges and blue-sky flooding that become more frequent every year. But while a major storm has not hit the city directly since Hurricane Matthew in 2016, it is one of the many places looking to congressional funding as a way to fund preemptive land management projects to protect their shorelines and their residents. 

<small>Source: Inside Climate News</small>

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