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Trump Administration Drowns National Ocean Policy WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, with a stroke of his pen, President Trump repealed the National Ocean Policy – a guidance document representing over ten years…
A (not so sad) report from Washington DC
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Report from Sacramento
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OCR Comments to Interior’s dreadful OCS proposal
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An industry on the ropes
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Express Yourself on Offshore Fossil Fuel!
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