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.
Dismantling the Administrative State
Category: Public Policy
NOAA Fisheries 2024 “Acoustical Guidance” review.
Proposed “updates” of federal documents are required every five years to make sure the regulations reflect the ‘best available science.’ Predictably the 2024 “Updates” remain at least a decade behind the “best available science…”
Earth Month!
Earth Day sprung out of concern – driven by a lot of environmental disasters leading up to what congealed into the environmental movement of 1970.
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…
NOAA’s North Atlantic Right Whale ship-strike workshop
Last week I participated in a North Atlantic Right Whale (NARW) Vessel Strike risk reduction workshop. This issue is really big, because the population of these iconic whales has been falling precipitously in the past few years due to…
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…
“The Most Dangerous Man in America” takes flight.
Regardless of how close or distant, we are all lucky that Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg have been in our lives. I was so fortunate to have intersected their circles by way of a couple of orbits – one through Patricia’s…
Ocean Day 2023!
It is June 8 – World Ocean Day, we’ve circled the sun yet another time. and the Ocean remains…
Earth Day comes around again!
In my perfect world, every day would be Earth Day! But if the world was perfect, OCR would not be doing the work we do – trying to make our collective habitat better for all of us that live in…