Gloucester Times (MA): Panel Chairman Moves To Block ‘Ocean Zoning’ Money The chairman of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, backed by a national coalition that ranges from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association, is urging a shutoff to all funding geared toward implementation of a National Ocean Policy created [...]
Archive | April, 2012
E&E News: Industry Groups Press Lawmakers To Freeze Spending for New Obama Policy – April 12, 2012
E&E News: Industry Groups Press Lawmakers To Freeze Spending for New Obama Policy Industry groups are asking lawmakers to put the brakes on the Obama administration’s National Ocean Policy. More than 75 groups — representing agriculture, forestry, oil and gas, and some parts of the fishing industry — sent a letter today to House appropriators asking [...]
80+ Groups Submit National Ocean Policy Letter To Congress
Eighty-one groups today submitted a letter to U.S. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers (KY) asking that language be included in all Fiscal Year 2013 appropriations bills that would prohibit the use of funds to implement the new National Ocean Policy. The request was made as part of an effort to achieve a pause in [...]
