Category: Public Policy

Report from Louisville ASA meeting

I spent the better part of last week at an Acoustical Society conference in Louisville, Kentucky. I am glad that the conference was interesting because as cities go, Louisville isn’t. (Having a museum of baseball bats as a major cultural…

Oiling up for the Long Game

Frustrated by the lack of subservience by many states, the oil administration is attempting to roll back our Constitutional rights on a number of fronts to advance their “American Energy Dominance” agenda. It has become abundantly clear that quite a…

The suspense is killing me!

  While there seems to be a lot of Regulatory Agency activities these days – with changing of directors, indictments of outgoing directors, and also indictments of incoming directors, there are also a lot of monumental actions pending, and have…

An Honest Broker

When OCR was founded I was given some wise advice by sacred tree-monkey Julia Butterfly Hill. Hill had become a celebrity on account of her particular act of courage – which she attributed to her deciding what she wanted to…

Travel report – the Republic of Georgia

I’ve recently returned from the Republic of Georgia where I was invited to give an environmental “keynote” address to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) meeting at the bi-annual Georgian International Maritime Forum (GIMF), and take a chair in a panel…