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President Biden on today issued an Executive Order on Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All, which calls for advancing environmental justice by implementing and enforcing environmental and civil rights laws, preventing pollution, addressing climate change and its effects, cleaning up legacy pollution, investing in and supporting culturally vibrant, sustainable, and resilient communities, […]

NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service today announced that it is seeking comments by Monday, May 22 on its proposal to authorize Attentive Energy, LLC to take small numbers of 15 species of marine mammals by Level B harassment incidental to high-resolution geophysical surveys off New York and New Jersey in the New York Bight.  The surveys

The Environmental Protection Agency today announced that public listening sessions will be held on Thursday Apr. 27 and Thursday, May 25 in order to provide information on $25 million in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding to support clean water in underserved Gulf of Mexico communities.  EPA is also interested in receiving public input on

The National Science Foundation today announced that its Advisory Committee for Polar Programs will hold a virtual public meeting on Wednesday, May 17.  Agenda items include a review and evaluation of the COVID Protocols Subcommittee report, and a vote on whether it should be forwarded to the Office of Polar Programs. The Committee provides advice

The State Department this week announced that the Shipping Coordinating Committee will hold a public meeting in Washington, DC on Monday, May 22 in preparation for the 107th session of the International Maritime Organization’s Maritime Safety Committee, to be held in London on May 31-June 9.  Meeting topics include development of a goal-based instrument for maritime

The U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee today held a hearing on discussion draft legislation that, among other things, would establish NOAA as an independent executive branch agency and require a study examining the feasibility of transferring all or part of the Endangered Species Act and Marine Mammal Protection Act management functions to the

NOAA today announced the initiation of a process to potentially designate a new national marine sanctuary in the Pacific Remote Islands region, with comments sought by Friday, June 2 on the scope and significance of issues to be addressed in preparing a draft environmental impact statement for the designation.  In conjunction with the comment period, NOAA

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement today announced the release of a final rule effective Thursday, May 18 that specifies decommissioning requirements for rights-of-use and easement grant holders and formalizes BSEE’s policies regarding performance by predecessors ordered to decommission Outer Continental Shelf facilities. BSEE Director Kevin Sligh said that the rule will “provide

At an event in Miami, FL today, Vice President Harris announced $562 million in federal investments for 149 projects focused on climate resilience in 30 coastal and Great Lakes states and territories.  The funding includes $477 million for “high-impact projects,” $46 million for National Fish and Wildlife Foundation National Coastal Resilience Fund projects, and $39.1

The U.S. Coast Guard has announced the establishment of a safety zone effective Thursday, May 11 that precludes any vessels except those attending the facility or those less than 100 feet in length and not engaged in towing from entering within 500 meters of the Heidelberg Spar in Green Canyon Block 860 in the Gulf