{"id":462920,"date":"2026-05-27T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/462920\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:15:07","slug":"puerto-rico-announces-emergency-to-fight-coastal-erosion-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/462920\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico announces emergency to fight coastal erosion surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) \u2014 Puerto Rico\u2019s governor announced a state of emergency Wednesday to fight a surge in coastal erosion along the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/puerto-rico\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. territory<\/a> \u2019s north coast.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/puerto-rico-jenniffer-gonzalez-new-governor-sworn-84afbbfa537b23f35494df0127b20c2d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Jenniffer Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a> said the executive order would allow her administration to accelerate projects to protect natural resources and vulnerable coastal communities. The government said in a statement that rising sea levels, storm surges and other factors have intensified coastal erosion in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>Gonz\u00e1lez pledged to help northern towns including Loiza, where people have been evacuated and chunks of asphalt from coastal roads have tumbled into the ocean following heavy swells.<\/p>\n<p>The order was signed just days before the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. <\/p>\n<p>The cost of the projects has not yet been determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) \u2014 Puerto Rico\u2019s governor announced a state of emergency Wednesday to fight a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[9887,242,122,85,46,16632,56540,36108,141,126],"class_list":["post-462920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-central-america","tag-environment","tag-general-news","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-latin-america","tag-puerto-rico","tag-rising-sea-levels","tag-science","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}