{"id":14492,"date":"2022-07-28T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=14492"},"modified":"2022-07-29T12:41:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:41:05","slug":"news-sen-ossoffs-bipartisan-legislation-to-protect-tybee-island-from-storm-surge-sea-level-rise-passes-u-s-senate%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/news-sen-ossoffs-bipartisan-legislation-to-protect-tybee-island-from-storm-surge-sea-level-rise-passes-u-s-senate%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Sen. Ossoff\u2019s Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Tybee Island from Storm Surge &amp; Sea Level Rise Passes U.S. Senate\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsav.com\/news\/local-news\/sen-jon-ossoff-touts-act-to-help-tybee-island-combat-climate-change\/\"><em>briefed leaders<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;on the bill in March<\/em><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 Today, the U.S. Senate passed U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s bipartisan legislation to protect Tybee Island from the effects of growing storm surge.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff\u2019s bipartisan&nbsp;<em>Tybee Island Storm Risk Management Act&nbsp;<\/em>will ensure Tybee Island has the resources it needs to protect from sea level rise, storm surge, coastal flooding, and other impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Senate passed the bill with bipartisan support as part of this year\u2019s Water Resources and Development Act Reauthorization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have secured bipartisan Senate passage of the&nbsp;<em>Tybee Island Storm Risk Management Act<\/em>&nbsp;to help protect homes and businesses on Tybee from coastal flooding, storm surge, and high winds,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cI thank Chairman Ellis and Mayor Sessions for their help as I\u2019ve built bipartisan support in the Senate for this bill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock co-sponsored the Senate legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tybee Island has been one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the state of Georgia since the 1870s and has experienced 10 inches of sea level rise since 1935.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final version of the legislation will ensure Tybee Island can continue to implement coastal storm risk management projects for the next 12 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;briefed leaders&nbsp;on the bill in March Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2014 Today, the U.S. Senate passed U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff\u2019s bipartisan legislation to protect Tybee Island from the effects of growing storm surge. Sen. Ossoff\u2019s bipartisan&nbsp;Tybee Island Storm Risk Management Act&nbsp;will ensure Tybee Island has the resources it needs to protect from sea level rise, storm surge, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14492","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/14492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/14492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14494,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/14492\/revisions\/14494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}