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Suffolk CloseupDoing battle with the mighty ocean to protect our changing coastline is futile as ‘hand-wrestling with God’

by Aug 6, 2016
Other coastal communities around the world are working to adapt to rising sea levels or relocate. But for Suffolk, the federal government is poised to spend more than $1 billion to take on the mighty Atlantic Ocean.

Wrongheaded work of Army Corps is destroying, not protecting, our shoreline

by Nov 20, 2015
The $8.9 million beach "fortification" project at Montauk will do more harm than good and is an example of why the Army Corps is the wrong agency for civilian shoreline projects.