How $15.5 billion will be spent on Congress’s pet projects

Lawmakers have approved nearly $15.5 billion in earmarks for more than 8,000 projects in the 2026 federal funding package.
Los Angeles Daily News

Here’s how 724 pounds of shells from the DTLA Oyster Festival are helping the environment

Orange County Coastkeeper earlier in the week received a bounty of oyster shells, 724 pounds worth, from the recently resurrected DTLA Oyster Festival, brought back after a five-year hiatus. The hard ...

SC taxpayers pay thousands for out-of-state recycled oysters. What’s being done

Over 300,000 bushels of oysters are eaten in SC each year, but not many are recycled. A new Horry County restaurant ...

SC wildlife officials are partnering with this technical college to expand oyster shell recycling

Georgetown Technical College Wildlife Society club has a new partnership with the SC Department of Natural Resources to ...
WLOX

Mississippi receives $553,000 to expand oyster shell recycling program

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - New RESTORE Act funding is expanding oyster shell recycling efforts along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, turning discarded shells from local restaurants into tools for ...
Capital Gazette

National Oyster Day: Restaurant demand inspires shell recycling. Here’s how it works.

For years, Maryland has participated in celebrating National Oyster Day on Aug. 5. Although many gastronomists still encourage oyster consumption in months that end in “R,” this rule has become more ...
NBC Connecticut

CORR returns 125,000 pounds of oyster shells to Long Island Sound through restoration project

You may love the taste, but probably not the waste when it comes to eating oysters, but now a restoration project is coming full circle. Collective Oyster Recycling and Restoration, or CORR, has been ...