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 Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
This morning NRDC filed a petition under the Endangered Species Act to protect one of Hawaii's most imperiled species: the near-shore population of false killer whales. As my colleague Andrew wrote earlier, the listing petition has much to say...
Posted by Michael Jasny in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
One of the big questions in marine mammal research these days is how Navy mid-frequency sonar kills marine mammals. Some scientists have looked to decompression sickness, or "the bends," for an answer, since investigators have repeatedly found bends-like symptoms in...
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 Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
It is as we all feared. Stephen Colbert threw his considerable legal acumen into the ring last night, weighing in on NRDC v. Winter – our case about naval sonar training off California, which the Supreme Court will hear in...
Posted by Michael Jasny in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
One thing you get when your lawsuit is taken up by the Supreme Court, aside from supportive calls from friends, is a lot of interest from the media. That happened yesterday when the Supreme Court agreed to hear NRDC v....
