Where do we go from here?
Category: Policy
Dismantling the Administrative State
A “legal coup” has just occurred in the US. If we do not act strongly, July 4 2024 may be the last Independence Day we’ll see in a while.
Field report from DC
I snuck out last week and headed off to Washington DC. There is no pending legislation, but we were offered support from “DCO2” – Don’t Cage Our Ocean – who are working on legislation against industrial fin-fish farming. This is…
Evolution of The National Environmental Policy Act
After being shredded by the last administration, the National Environmental Policy Act is being put back together again – sort-of….
Adaptive Management during the hottest week on record.
The expansion of a fossil-fueled global economy over the last century has driven an historically unprecedented growth in global prosperity, technological advancement, and improvement in life-quality for a plurality of our planet’s human inhabitants. Unfortunately this phenomenon has falsely correlated…
Field Report from OceaNoise2023
I’ve just returned from attending OceanNoise2023 – a tri-annual conference on marine bioacoustics – this one in Vilanova i la Geltrú, just 30 km down the coast from Barcelona, Spain. OceaNoise is one of the bi/triennial conferences that coagulate the…
A thick week in DC – September 2022
It was nice seeing the Capitol Building free of banners, beards, and bombs – although January 6 did leave a lot of scars…