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June 21 (UPI) -- To protect themselves from the inevitable threat of rising sea levels, coastal communities in the United States will have to shell out more than $ 400 billion, according to a new report released by the Center for Climate Integrity. Authors of the new report estimate 50,000 miles of coastal barriers will need to be built across 22 states over the next two decades. The report, compiled with the help of engineering firm Resilient Analytics, organizes the costs by city, county, congressional district and state. Not surprisingly, researchers with the Center for Climate Integrity expect Florida to pay the steepest price -- more than $ 75 billion -- to protect its coastal communities from rising seas. For the report, researchers relied on moderate sea-level rise projections and...

Thirteen years after building a state-of-the-art lab for the world's most dangerous germs, the nation's top public health agency is asking for more than $ 400 million to build a new one. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the current lab building in Atlanta is quickly wearing down, and cannot be upgraded without shutting down the facility for years. The lab investigates deadly and exotic germs like Ebola, smallpox and dangerous new forms of flu. The agency disclosed its plans for a new lab on Friday. The CDC lab is one of only eight U.S. labs with the security and safety features necessary to work with the highest-threat germs, said James Le Duc, director of one of them, the University of Texas's Galveston National Laboratory. Five of the eight are run by the ...

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Protecting U.S. coastal communities from sea level rise will cost $400 billion

CDC seeking $400 million to replace lab for deadliest germs