New Jersey plans to restore vast tracts of a coastal tree species threatened by climate change and will pay for it with money from polluters of groundwater.
As earth's climate warms, hurricane’s intensify faster brining stronger winds, heavier rain and catastrophic storm surges.WOODLAND TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- New Jersey plans to restore vast tracts of a coastal tree species threatened by climate change, and will pay for it with money from polluters of groundwater.
The $20 million project will span 10 years and will be paid for from court settlements with manufacturers and distributors of a now-banned gasoline additive that has polluted groundwater throughout the country. Stands of dead cedars haunt New Jersey and other spots along the Atlantic coast, where the bleached-white trees have become known as “ghost forests.”
LaTourette called the cedar forests “a triple benefit" because the forests absorb stormwater runoff that otherwise could contribute to flooding; they help remove carbon from the atmosphere; “and their roots and the unique soil cleans groundwater for us for free,” he said.
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