This Administration’s issuing a Draft EIS is just window dressing. They are just going to do whatever their funders want them to do anyway.
They’re going to do it anyway…
Category: Industrial pollution
Proposed seabed mining off the Virginia coast
The current administration is proposing yet another reckless way of grinding up our planet and turning it into money. As I perused the 1600+ comments submitted by the public, businesses, and organizations, and it doesn’t seem like anybody thinks this is a good idea.
OCEANOISE 2026 – an odd side-meeting
I “laid an egg” (intentionally) by stating that 40% of the ships at sea are transporting fossil fuel, so the most direct way of accomplishing the stated goal would be to use less fossil fuel.
Melding BOEM and BSEE together again…
When Barrack Obama was elected in 2008, and seated in 2009, he appointed Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Department of Interior (DOI). This brought an end to eight years of the DOI being run at the convenience of the extraction industries.
Aside from the continuation of our dependence on fossil fuel, the “Macondo Deepwater Horizon” blowout was probably the worst fossil-fueled environmental disaster ever.
Earth Day 2026
Taking a day to celebrate those who have dedicated their lives to supporting our blue planet.
What’s next?
We have not yet seen how the current administration has synthesized any of the EIS comments we submitted this year, but given their proclivity to pushing the envelope to see what they can get away with, my suspicions are that they will ignore all public input and just see what we’ll do about it.
This is really not the best time to pull long-planned power generation projects offline. It is bound to kick the US back into the “Dark Ages.
Seabed mining is sneaking up on us
If BOEM grants Impossible Metals a permit to harvest the nodules, it may serve as an invitation to other nations to open the gates to mining operations in the international Clarion-Clipperton Zone, where the ISA is managing the seabed deliberations.
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.