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Fighting Offshore Oil Again with Richard Charter
Read more: Fighting Offshore Oil Again with Richard CharterIn the latest episode of Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast, David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein speak with longtime ocean activist and former guest Richard Charter about the Trump administration’s punitive effort to open the entire California coastline to offshore oil drilling. It has been several years since their last conversation with Charter, who has…
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By land or sea, using the military for law enforcement raises red flags
Read more: By land or sea, using the military for law enforcement raises red flagsBackground on the StrikesThe article examines the Trump administration’s decision to carry out military strikes against boats off Venezuela’s coast, which it claimed were tied to narcotics trafficking. Officials justified the attacks by labeling the targets as “unlawful combatants” in a self-declared “non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels. Legal and Ethical ConcernsCritics argue that the…
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Will California’s marine mammal conservation success come undone?
Read more: Will California’s marine mammal conservation success come undone?Dramatic Comebacks & Current Scope of Biodiversity Thanks to landmark protections like the Marine Mammal Protection Act (1972) and the Endangered Species Act (1973), many of California’s marine mammals have staged impressive recoveries over the past 50 years. Species such as California sea lions, northern elephant seals, harbor seals, whales, dolphins, porpoises, and southern sea…
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Balancing Wonder and Warning: Dr. Ben Halpern on the Future of Our Oceans
Read more: Balancing Wonder and Warning: Dr. Ben Halpern on the Future of Our OceansIn the latest episode of ‘Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast,’ David and Natasha speak with Dr. Ben Halpern. Along with being a past Peter Benchley Ocean Award winner, Ben serves as Director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a research center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also…
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Labor is for ‘Revolution’ in Offshore Wind
Read more: Labor is for ‘Revolution’ in Offshore WindIn the latest episode of ‘Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast,’ David speaks with Erica Hammond, Legislative Director of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO. They represent most of the roughly 1,000 workers who’ve been out of a job since the Trump administration issued a stop-work order in August on the ‘Revolution’ wind farm project. That’s a 5 billion-dollar 80…
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- KGUA Radio – Public Media for the Mendonoma Coast
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