Posted by Michael Jasny in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
If, like me, you're desperately concerned about the fate of the oceans, probably the most hopeful development this year is President Obama's launch of a new National Oceans Policy. The task force he convened in June recently came out with...
Posted by Michael Jasny in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The Obama Administration has put a premium on good science in environmental policy, but some folks in the Navy don't seem to have gotten the message. In a study soon to be published in Biology Letters, researchers exposed a captive...
Posted by Michael Jasny in Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans
As offshore oil gets dragged once again onto the political scene, it’s worth remembering the environmental costs that led to the adoption of an offshore moratorium in the first place. One of the seminal events in the modern environmental movement...
