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March 4, 2009
Posted by Sarah Chasis in Reviving the World's Oceans
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- adamravetch, billmckibben, bluevisionsummit, capitolhill, congress, derrinbabb-brott, georgestafford, globalwarming, jimtoomey, madeleinebordallo, mariacantwell, marineprotectedareas, massachusettsoceanact, mikechrisman, nancysutley, obama administration, ocean, offshorerenewables, phillippecousteau, rozsavage, samfarr, sheldonwhitehouse, sylviaearle, terrytamminen
President Obama and the new Congress have inherited a struggling economy, two wars and a climate crisis. They need to know that healthy ocean and coasts are vital to our economy, security and fighting global warming. That's why ocean leaders and...continued→
March 2, 2009
Posted by Sarah Chasis in Reviving the World's Oceans
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- beach, biscaynenationalpark, charliecrist, cleanoceansbill, coast, coastaldevelopment, fisheries, florida, floridaforever, globalwarming, governorcrist, manatees, marineprotectedareas, ocean, offshoredrilling, pollution, reportcard, seagrass, sewageoverflows, stormwater
Florida's coast and oceans got their report card today. Flanked by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, no state is more dependent on the natural resources of its coastal waters for food, jobs and recreation. The state's huge...continued→
January 7, 2009
Posted by Sarah Chasis in Reviving the World's Oceans
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- bush, congress, farr, healthyoceansact, marinenationalmonument, marineprotectedareas, marinesanctuaries, nationaloceanspolicy, obama, oceans, oceans21, offshoredrilling
For the last four years of the Bush Administration, NRDC has been on the frontlines of repeated attempts at passing a national Healthy Oceans Act. Tuesday - the very first day of the 111th Congress and just weeks before we...continued→
January 6, 2009
Posted by Sarah Chasis in Reviving the World's Oceans
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- bottomtrawling, bush, coral, deadzones, fishing, janelubchenco, marianas, marinatrench, marinenationalmonument, marineprotectedareas, marinereserves, marinesanctuaries, NOAA, obama, oceanmanagement, oceanpolicy, oceans, overfishing, pacificremoteislands, roseatoll, sonar, whales
Today President Bush is announcing his creation of 3 new national marine monuments in the Pacific Ocean totaling 195,000 square miles - the Marianas, Pacific Remote Islands and Rose Atoll National Marine Monuments. In doing this the President took an...continued→
