Keep Up the Momentum for NOAA’s Budget
There’s been much debate swirling in the news of the federal government’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget process, including the budget for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This federal agency is criti...
Keep Up the Momentum for NOAA’s Budget
Earlier this year, I had a front-row seat at the biggest international effort ever to tackle the scourge of plastic pollution. On March 2, 2022, the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA), meeting in Nairobi, Kenya...
Opportunity to End Plastic Pollution: A Global Agreement
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a critical environmental and civil rights law that gives communities the chance to weigh in on federal projects that may affect their neighborhoods, nearby lands and waters...
Why NEPA is Critical for Coastal Communities
One of Ocean Conservancy’s goals each year is to help ensure that our nation’s premier ocean agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is appropriately funded in the federal budget. This budget...
Funding Brighter Future for NOAA
At the beginning of May, the Biden administration canceled proposed offshore oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Cook Inlet. Selling new offshore leases to oil companies would have set the st...
Biden Administration Decision Curbs New Drilling
Congress is working hard on legislation to bolster the United States’ leadership in science and technology and support a clean energy economy that is “made in America.” This is great news for our ocean because a healthy...
What the America COMPETES Act Means for Our Ocean
UPDATE! On January 27, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia canceled the most recent offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. The court determined the Department of the Interior’s envi...
Offshore Oil and Gas and the Biden Administration
In case you haven’t heard, it’s finally infrastructure week, and American infrastructure is getting a much-needed overhaul. On Monday, President Biden is set to sign into law the bipartisan Infrastructure Investments and...
What Does the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Mean for Our Ocean?
We may have just celebrated Halloween, but here’s something spooky that may have flown under the radar recently: The United States government, including agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (...
No Time to Lose: Update on Funding Bill
This is a momentous week for Congress, if they want it to be. Several deadlines are looming for our federal representatives and, if they fail to take action, the consequences will be dire. People around the country will...