{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases/hawaii-set-to-receive-more-than-2-million-to-protect-coastal-communities-across-the-state", "Hawai\u2018i Set To Receive More Than $2 Million To Protect Coastal Communities Across The State", "2021-11-19", "2021", "2021-11", "Democrat", "Senate", "HI", "Brian Schatz", "S001194", "www.schatz.senate.gov", "schatz", "https://www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai\u2018i), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that Hawai\u2018i will receive more than $2 million to fund coastal resilience projects and protect communities from flooding across the state.\n\n\u201cThese projects will restore or expand wetlands, beaches, and forests and will help keep homes and businesses safe from flooding and coastal erosion,\u201d said Senator Schatz.\n\nThe National Fish and Wildlife Foundation will administer the funding in partnership with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and will leverage additional funding from the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Defense, Shell Oil, TransRe, Occidental, and AT&T.\n\nHawai\u2018i projects receiving federal grant funding include:\n\nDepartment of Hawaiian Home Lands\n\nProject: Developing Community Resilience for Molokai Coastal Homesteads\n\nGrant amount: $203,940\n\nFunding will be used to develop a resilience plan for homestead communities on the island of Molokai through scientific analyses and modeling of projected sea-level rise, flooding, groundwater upwelling and other increasing coastal hazards.\n\nMalama Maunalua\n\nProject: Utilizing a Traditional Framework to Minimize Floods in Maunalua Bay Watersheds\n\nGrant amount: $262,312\n\nProject will address the serious flooding issues confronting residential, commercial, and environmental resources surrounding Maunalua Bay by reducing the volume of the stormwater runoff in priority areas through increased filtration with revegetation in natural areas and by slowing down or capturing the water from urban areas.\n\nMaui Nui Marine Resource Council\n\nProject: Conducting Site Assessments and Planning to Address Recurring Coastal Flooding\n\nGrant amount: $210,000\n\nProject will create a workplan for site design, with the goal of preventing property and infrastructure damage due to stormwater flooding and protecting wetland bird habitat, native plant species, nearshore coral reef ecosystems and marine wildlife.\n\nDepartment of Land and Natural Resources\n\nProject: Enhancing Flood Mitigation Through Invasive Species Control for a Resilient Ala Wai Watershed\n\nGrant amount: $1,640,830\n\nProject will control and monitor an estimated 1,000 albizia trees across 669 acres, treat all miconia plants detected during surveys across 4,000 acres, and treat mule\u2019s foot ferns across 200 acres.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:30:49Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases/hawaii-set-to-receive-more-than-2-million-to-protect-coastal-communities-across-the-state"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8896458894014359, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}