Solution-oriented citizen engagement needed to protect our ocean.
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In 2020 Climate became a serious national election issue. On Tuesday, Oct. 20, House Democrats on the Natural Resources Committee introduced an “Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act,” the first bill ever aimed at using ocean and coastal resources to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while helping coastal communities equitably adapt to climate change impacts. It’s an overdue corrective not […]
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If you truly want to understand what Donald Trump has done to our public seas during his presidency, you might want to start with “Trump on the Ocean.” Read David Helvarg’s article in The Progressive.
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Climate change, misguided fire suppression, population boom—the current wildfire crisis has been building for decades, and crews are now fighting in unprecedented conditions. Read David Helvarg’s article in National Geographic here.
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Coming ashore as a Category 4, Hurricane Laura is our 15th anniversary reminder that Hurricane Katrina was a failure of the imagination and that we’ve been falling short on disaster preparedness ever since. “I don’t think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees,” President George W. Bush told Diane Sawyer after New Orleans, a below-sea level city, went aquatic in […]
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The Ocean Climate Action Plan (OCAP), produced by the Center for the Blue Economy at the Middlebury Institute and the nonprofit Blue Frontier, aims to fill the shortcomings of the Green New Deal, offering a four-part set of policy recommendations that, it says, “contains both conservative and liberal economic philosophies that are mutually reinforcing.” Read the GreenBiz […]
The Sea Party Coalition aims to stop proposed offshore oil drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans and replace it with clean energy and sensible ocean planning.
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Blue Frontier builds the solution-oriented citizen engagement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and the communities, both human and wild that depend on them.
