We’ve just filed our comments on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Review. NEPA started out as a seven-page act signed into law in 1970 and serves as the over-arching document that ties together the application of all other…
Tahlequah, one of the last survivors of the endangered Southern Resident Orca population, is carrying her dead calf for the seventeenth straight day. She has traveled more than 1,000 miles with her dead baby, carrying her daughter along and…
Francisco Goya – El Bobilicon from “Los Desperates” 1864 Over the last few weeks the entire world has been staring aghast at our southern border as agents from our Customs and Border Patrol were tearing children away from their…
Francisco Goya – Saturno devorando a su hijo Back around the turn of the century, our National engagement with the Sea started coming up on everyone’s sonar. For the majority of our Nation’s history the ocean was considered “immeasurable”…
Press Release Date: June 20, 2018 Contact: Michael Stocker, mstocker@ocr.org 415.464.7220 Trump Administration Drowns National Ocean Policy WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, with a stroke of his pen, President Trump repealed the National Ocean Policy – a guidance document representing over ten years…
OCR Communications Director Daniela Huson and I have just returned from a week in Washington DC – to participate in Capitol Hill Ocean Week, and March for the Ocean. But probably more importantly, we went to “a special place in…