Today, Monday June 14 is the last day to file OCS Comments
National Academy of Science delivers a troubling report
…but the current administration has no plans on commissioning any new or replacement ocean research vessels. These vessels take years to build. So with this administration, it looks like the US has just forfeited our advance footing on marine science.
Report from the Acoustical Society meeting New Orleans
I suspect this will really open up our understanding of the culture of fishes, much like video drones have really advanced our understanding of how whales and dolphins play with each other (substantiating my hypothesis that “play is the universal language.”)
Rescinding the word “Harm” from the Endangered Species Act
By way of this semantic legerdemain they would open up the floodgates for extractive and construction industries to run roughshod over their operation areas without regulatory oversight or legal consequences.
Kids at sea!
Once the sails went up, the deck was anything but level. For the kids, the first 30 minutes were “pure adrenaline!”
Earth Day Is a Call to Listen—and to Act
15th Anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster
A whole raft of regulations were signed into law after a litany of environmental disasters pissed the public off to the point that we were done giving industry free license to destroy our living habitat.
A Day Remembered for a Lifetime
Fan Dance of the Oilmen
The industry is in their element when prices are around $100/bbl. When it falls to $50/bbl. they close up shop. So having lease sales in a sinking market may not yield the promises of “Drill, Baby, Drill.”