The National Ocean Policy in Reality, Not Rhetoric
A Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation committee recently held an oversight hearing on the National Ocean Policy , sometimes known by its wonkier name...
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The First Regional Ocean Plans: A One Year Review
The U.S. Atlantic’s blue economy is busier than ever before: a chain of offshore wind leases is under development, growth of marine shellfish and finfish...
Next Steps for Our Ocean Budget
Our oceans and Great Lakes contribute hundreds of billions of dollars in goods and services to the country’s gross domestic product and employ millions of peo...
The National Ocean Policy at Seven
Today the National Ocean Policy turns 7 and I’m increasingly amazed our country ever managed without it....
Trump Budget Slashes Coastal and Ocean Funding
The Trump Administration’s 2018 federal budget proposal doubles down on attempts to weaken our nation’s ocean and coastal arm, the National Oceanic and Atmo...
We Can’t Afford Cuts to Coastal Management
The Trump Administration seems hell-bent on cutting critical programs that protect the lives, livelihoods, and way of life for the 124 million people who call o...