It was on April 22, 1970,  that the idea of “Earth Day” brought 20 million Americans out into the streets to proclaim their love for our precious planet.
Primed and ready for another Epic Earth Day!
Twelve years since the commencement of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster
It has been twelve years since – due to some reckless, schedule-driven decisions, British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon disaster began.
A deeper breath on upwelling and offshore windfarms
Our last newsletter brought up an aspect of West Coast offshore wind that I (and others) find a bit alarming – the likelihood that pulling huge amounts of energy out of meteorological and marine hydrodynamic systems will have impacts on…
California wind energy and nutrient upwelling
Harvesting California wind energy will impact the iconic nutrient upwelling which feeds all ocean life in California.
Marin Mammal Protection Act turns 50!
Join us is celebrating the seminal Act that protects all marine mammals in US waters, and set the standard for whale conservation world wide!
Exposure metrics in relief
…the beauty of this approach is that we don’t have to wait another ten years for the findings to become regulations, rather they provide some guidelines in applying existing regulations to inform current practice.
Cell towers on the ocean floor
OCR 2021 Year-End Progress Report
In February of this year we were sort-of gasping on the shore after having spent four years tossed upon the tempestuous waves of a reckless, and oil-soaked administration…
Reassembling NEPA
In our last episode in the life of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the foundational policy of all environmental legislation had been blown up by the previous administration…