Coastal communities in the contiguous United States face more than $400 billion in costs over the next 20 years to defend coastal communities from sea-level rise, according to a report released recently by the Center for Climate Integrity in partnership with the engineering firm, Resilient Analytics.
This is approaching the cost of the original interstate highway system and will require the construction of more than 50,000 miles of coastal barriers in 22 states by 2040 — half the time it took to create the nation’s iconic roadway network.
The first-of-its-kind report titled, “High Tide Tax: The Price to Protect Coastal Communities from
