Our Summer Recess Political Issue plus Coasties BOXER BILL BRINGS OCEAN ACT CLOSER August 1, 2008 By David Helvarg BOXER BILL BRINGS OCEAN ACT CLOSER On July 23 Senator Boxer introduced her long anticipated National Ocean Protection Act (NOPA) in the Senate. Different from the comprehensive ocean bill she’d introduced in 2005 (See Blue Notes #13)…
Popeye McCain, Exxon Packs Court, Smelly Penguins at risk, Row Roz Row and more July 8, 2008 By David Helvarg McCain channels Popeye, announces — “Oil’s Well” If you thought we’d be celebrating Independence from Oil this 4th of July you must be huffing hydrogen. Instead responding to public anxiety over high gas prices and…
Vast Ocean Parks, Humping Whales, Bay State Rockers, Dick Cheney and other Sea Monsters May 28, 2008 By David Helvarg Bush’s Next Blue Asterisk? In 2006 President Bush established a 1,200 mile long protected area in the waters of Northwest Hawaii between Kauai and Midway now known as the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument (Hawaiian for…
Global Hunger, Dying whales, noisy fish and a day of hope May 1, 2008 By David Helvarg Food Riots and Fish Sticks Population growth, climate linked droughts, spiraling oil prices (for petroleum based fertilizers and food transport), commodity speculation on the Chicago Board of Trade and elsewhere — not unlike what went on in Britain…
More melting ice, dead salmon, ocean daze, a hero dolphin and more March 28, 2008 By David Helvarg AMERICA’S 5th COAST Most people think of the United States as having three coasts, the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico. Midwesterners often correct their saltier neighbors by reminding them of our 4th coast along the Great…
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