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
Tag: EPA
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.
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….
Implosion of the Republic
Should we not prevail in the next election, we can expect to see all of our Federal regulatory agencies nestled in the armpit of some Congressional oversight committee…
We won! – sort-of
While the 2020 Presidential election frees us from the specter of the collapse of the Republic for the moment, it does not portend all it could have…
NOAA Tinkers with acoustical standards to appease industry
Some improvements were recently made to the acoustical standards but most were “academic” and just promised to remove some of the ambiguity from the regulations. But a troubling component was the somewhat arbitrary tinkering with the Low Frequency exposure thresholds – substantiated with…
Two Holiday Gifts!
This last week has ushered forth two great developments for the ocean. The first is actually a retraction of a Bush-driven policy that would have seriously compromised the National Environmental Policy Act by allowing NOAA to bypass external review when…
Dec. 2008 holiday gifts
This last week has ushered forth two great developments for the ocean. The first is actually a retraction of a Bush-driven policy that would have seriously compromised the National Environmental Policy Act by allowing NOAA to bypass external review when…
Supreme Court hears Endangered Species Act Case
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard the Navy Sonar case that originated in California early this year when the Whitehouse attempted to overrule a district court judgment on the US Navy’s proposed sonar exercises off of the California cost. The actual…
ESA and NEPA threats
While the following issues are not specifically about ocean noise pollution, they will impact the regulatory environment that allows us to protect our ocean from the “death of a thousand (ticker-tape) cuts.” Depending on how these issues fall, all of…