Endangered Species Law
MAY 22, 2023
On Wednesday, May 17, 2023, the federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted summary judgment in favor of the United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) and Vineyard Wind, and denied summary judgment to the plaintiffs in the case of Nantucket Residents Against Turbines v.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 17, 2023
In the US, when we check our local weather forecast, when our communities are recovering from an extreme weather event, or when our fisherfolk are at sea catching food, we are benefitting from the work of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA has three main goals under its mission: “1. In 1977, Rep.
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Ocean Conservancy
DECEMBER 15, 2023
This year marks the 50 th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), a critical law that protects our country’s most imperiled species on land and at sea. Global trade was picking up steam, with goods moving across our seas in ocean freighters.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 21, 2022
It stretches through China, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia before emptying into the ocean in Vietnam. The tree , which was listed last week as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act, plays a significant role in American West hydrology. .” — Marc Goichot, a river specialist at the WWF in Vietnam. On the Radar.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 12, 2024
A CNN poll in December found that 73 percent of respondents in the United States say the federal government has some level of responsibility to curb climate change. In a Pew poll last summer, two-thirds of respondents said the federal government is not doing enough to protect air and water quality.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 1, 2022
government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. Hatcheries like the Carson National Fish Hatchery, pictured here, breed millions of salmon and let them grow until they are mature enough to be released so they can try to swim to the ocean. Now, that system is falling apart.
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
And lastly, the federal government opens an Office of Climate Change and Health Equity. The goal of the collaborative, which counts national laboratories, universities, and companies as partners, is to lower the cost of removing salts and chemicals from ocean water, brackish groundwater, oilfield wastewater, farm drainage, and other sources.
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