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Fishy Science at NOAA, Something to Celebrate and the Blue Frontier at the Blue Hole July 5, 2005 By David Helvarg Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is a great group of civic-minded activists and lawyers who have helped whistle-blowers get the word out about government waste, fraud and abuse as it relates to our natural […]

An Occasional Ramble by the Sea June 15, 2005 By David Helvarg Boxer no Jellyfish Last year at our national Blue Vision Conference people spoke of the need for a comprehensive ocean protection act at the level of the Clean Air or Clean Water acts of the last century – to mobilize and inspire the […]

An Occasional Ramble by the Sea May 23, 2005 By David Helvarg The Oil & Gas Industry’s Slick Maneuvers The Good News – A blatant attempt to undermine the quarter century moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling along much of the US coastline (by exempting natural gas) was defeated in the House May 19 […]

An Occasional Ramble by the Sea May 2nd, 2005 By David Helvarg On the Good News side – Our Blue Vision Mid-Atlantic conference at the Baltimore Aquarium was a big success (big as the pregnant dolphin who was also onsite). We want to thank the many co-sponsors and participants who helped make the day as […]

An Occasional Ramble by the Sea March 24, 2005 By David Helvarg From ANWR to SEACOR The one-vote (51-49) passage of a Senate spending bill amendment to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge may be the greatest Congressional achievement since the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (consult your Vietnam history books). Ten years from […]