Posted by Sarah Chasis in Reviving the World's Oceans
After getting our first glimpse last week of the details of what the Obama Administration is proposing for a national oceans policy (Interim Report issued 9/17), I'm heading to Providence, Rhode Island, this Thursday to testify at the only public...continued→
Posted by Sarah Chasis in Reviving the World's Oceans
Hailing from Hawaii and Illinois - President Obama knows oceans and the Great Lakes firsthand. And before his first year is out, he could quietly revamp the way our nation manages and protects these resources, all with the stroke of...continued→
Posted by Sarah Chasis in Reviving the World's Oceans
Today, a bi-partisan group of leading citizens called on the Obama Administration and Congress to take swift action to protect the health of our oceans. The recommendations are contained in the report Changing Oceans, Changing World: Ocean Priorities for the...continued→
Posted by Sarah Chasis in Moving Beyond Oil , Reviving the World's Oceans , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
"We are in the renewable energy business." - Interior Secretary Salazar, 3/11/09 It was more good news from the Obama Administration yesterday when Department of Interior Secretary Salazar announced the agency is forming an energy and climate change task force...continued→
Posted by Sarah Chasis in Reviving the World's Oceans
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→
Posted by Sarah Chasis in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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→
