It is June 8 – World Ocean Day, we’ve circled the sun yet another time. and the Ocean remains…
Ocean Day 2023!
Tag: policy
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…
Off to ‘polish the marble’ in DC
While the trumpets and banner-waving around the IRA (“Build Back Better Lite”) highlights all sorts of climate actions and infrastructure support for clean energy systems, buried in the bowels of the bill are a few short clauses that entirely destroy the climate effectiveness of the effort…
My, how things change – mostly
Fortunately it seems like the folks in the current Administration have the interests of saving the planet in mind, not the interests of the oil industry.
I could get used to this…
We’re putting this out just as the ink is drying on a raft of Executive Orders addressing Climate Change
What’s in a word?
The gist of what they are proposing puts temporal, geographical, and circumstantial constraints on the meaning of the word “habitat.”
Dropping the NEPA Bomb
As anticipated, the Administration released their revised version of the National Environmental Policy Act. This has been a long-sought-after plumb for the oilmen, and really, they have been polishing up for this moment for 40 years.
First field report from Washington DC
We’ve just returned from Washington DC, where the first week of June is “Ocean Week” with the question “Will NOAA ever become independent of the Department of Commerce?”
Things are heating up on the OCS
Representative Joe Cunningham (D-SC) and his Air Horn demo There are a lot of moving parts right now on the proposal to open up the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to oil and gas leasing. The issue has been…
Keeping the fires lit under the Seismic Survey Proposal
We’re not really waiting for the smoke to settle on the Incidental Harassment Authorizations (IHAs) issued a week ago last Friday before sharing with you what to do next. We’re actually enjoying watching the continuing conflagration – for the simple…