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  Creating an Oceans Policy in 2016

  August 24, 2016

  A veteran ocean writer lists the changes the next president should make BY DAVID HELVARG | AUG 10 2016 Reproduced from Sierra Club Thirty-three years ago, President Ronald Reagan established the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), stretching 200 miles out from our shores. At 3.4 million square miles, it’s more extensive than our continental landmass.…

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  PRESS RELEASE: Ocean Leaders send letter to Clinton and Trump

  August 24, 2016

  For Immediate Release For more information contact: David Helvarg, Blue Frontier (202) 491-6296 or (510) 778-8470 helvarg@bluefront.org   Ocean Leaders send letter to Secretary Clinton and Mr. Trump: What will you do as President for the Blue in our Red, White and Blue?  This past week a letter went out to campaign representatives for Secretary Hillary…

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  Louisiana Is Starting to Rise Up Against Big Oil

  April 4, 2016

  The Obama administration held its biggest oil lease sale yet—and then the protesters showed up. By David Helvarg   I’ve seen Louisiana and the Gulf devastated and drowned after Katrina, and I’ve seen it in a froth of anger and confusion following the BP blowout and months-long Deepwater oil spill. When I asked one shrimper…

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  Always Ready: The U.S. Coast Guard Diving Program

  March 1, 2016

  “My umbilical is stuck,” MK1 Michael Pearsall reports. “Primary banks going down,” DV1 Geri Cabrera says from where she’s monitoring her fellow diver’s air, communications and depth on the XLDS (Extreme Lightweight Diving System). We’re on a Coast Guard pier in Alameda, Calif. It’s a hot, clear day, and we can see his bubbles about…

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  “The Finest Hours” Celebrates a Heroic, Near Impossible Coast Guard Rescue — One of Many in Coast Guard History

  February 1, 2016

  From New Orleans after Katrina to a Daring San Francisco Bay Rescue, up-from-below Leadership Took Center Stage In the book turned Disney action movie “The Finest Hours,” out Jan. 29, Chris Pine plays real-life Coast Guard hero Bernie Webber. In February 1952 Webber and his crew of three saved 32 of 33 sailors trapped on…

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