Biden Pauses Offshore Leasing
Today, in a sweeping executive order on climate change, the new administration placed a moratorium on new oil and gas leasing in federal waters and lands. This ...
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Congress Takes Up Ocean Climate Action
The House Natural Resources Committee has begun tackling the monumental Ocean-Based Climate Solutions bill (H.R. 8632). The first of its kind to address the oce...
Grijalva Bill Makes the Ocean Part of the Climate Solution
The ocean supports us in so many ways—it feeds us, produces half the oxygen we breathe, is a source of jobs and recreation, its wetlands and reefs protect ins...
Barreling in the Wrong Direction, a Decade After Deepwater
Ten years ago, people all over the U.S. gasped in horror, glued to news broadcasts trained on the fallout from a massive oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico...