New Jersey to Florida: Speak Out about Oil Exploration off Your Coast
A couple of weeks ago, the Obama Administration announced its plans to open up most of the east coast to oil and gas exploration. If you live near the coast...
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Big Oil's Coming to the East Coast -- From New Jersey/ Delaware to Florida
Imagine dynamite going off in your neighborhood every 10 seconds for days, weeks and months on end. Now imagine that you depend on your hearing to feed, mate,...
Gulf Dolphin Die-Off Is Unprecedented
What is happening to the dolphins? The rosy predictions that some have made since the Deepwater Horizon was plugged, in July 2010, have been belied by the...
On the East Coast, It's Boom, Baby, Boom
Today the administration announced its plans to open the Atlantic to oil and gas exploration. For the environment, this is terrible news, and not just because...
NMFS Blows Deadline to List Endangered Hawaiian Whale
In October 2009, NRDC submitted a petition calling on NMFS to list the Hawaii false killer whale as an endangered species. Listing should be a no-brainer. NMFS...
Researchers to Navies: Stop Using Sonar Near Puget Sound
Last month the Canadian Navy ran an active sonar exercise in one of the worst places in the world for it: the straits and channels outside Puget Sound,...