E.P.A. Helps Estuary Programs Adapt to Climate Change

June 16, 2009

E.P.A. Helps Estuary Programs Adapt to Climate Change

WASHINGTON - E.P.A. is awarding financial and technical assistance to 8 Countrywide Estuary Programs to support their efforts to project and adapt to climate change in estuaries. This assistance, including $430,000 in financial support, is provided through EPA's Climate Ready Estuaries program, the goal of which is to build local ability to adapt to climate change.

The assistance recipients are:

• Barnegat Bay Countrywide Estuary Plan (N.J.)
• Casco Bay Estuary Partnership (Maine)
• Charlotte Harbor Countrywide Estuary Plan (Fla.)
• Indian River Lagoon Countrywide Estuary Plan (Fla.)
• Long Island Sound Study (Conn., N.Y.)
• Partnership for the Delaware Estuary (Del., Pa., N.J.)
• Tampa Bay Estuary Plan (Fla.)
• Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Plan (Texas).

The Climate Ready Estuaries effort uses lessons learned from its partners to provide information and tools to other coastal communities around the nation. Through Climate Ready Estuaries, E.P.A. leverages its relationship with the 28 Countrywide Estuary Programs, Web-based resources and other means to support local efforts in coastal communities to project for and adapt to climate change.

Information on Climate Ready Estuaries: http://www.epa.gov/cre

Information on the Countrywide Estuaries Program: http://www.epa.gov/nep

Information about climate change: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange

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