The Hill (Energy & Environment Blog): Administration Unveils Sweeping Plan To Protect the Country’s Oceans The Obama administration unveiled on Thursday a federal strategy for protecting the country’s oceans that calls for improving oil-spill response capabilities in the Arctic and managing the effects of climate change. The draft plan outlines a series of steps that […]
U.S. House Committee: Obama Administration Moves Forward with Plan to Zone the Ocean WASHINGTON, D.C., January 12, 2012 – Today President Obama’s National Ocean Council, created by an Executive Order in 2010, released a draft action plan to move forward with the Administration’s goal of imposing new mandatory “ocean zoning.” This initiative could place huge
Proposals Could Create Uncertainty and Damage Economic Recovery WASHINGTON, DC – The National Ocean Council today released a 118-page draft action plan for implementation of the new National Ocean Policy. The National Ocean Policy Coalition (NOPC) is concerned that this proposal could create uncertainty and harm economic activity at a time when our economy is
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National Ocean Council: National Ocean Policy Draft Implementation Plan As part of President Obama’s National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes, the National Ocean Council has released a draft National Ocean Policy Implementation Plan to address some of the most pressing challenges facing the ocean, our coasts, and
National Ocean Council: Opening Our Oceans With Data.Gov Today, we are pleased to announce the release of ocean.data.gov, the newest community on Data.gov. This effort is the result of two important initiatives of the Obama Administration: the development and implementation of the National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, our Coasts, and the Great
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Anchorage Daily News Op-Ed by Mayor of Unalaska, AK: Feds’ Fish Panel Puts Communities At Risk As mayor of a community that relies upon healthy fisheries to sustain our economy and city services, I find the prospect of a centralized ocean policy that restricts the autonomy of our Regional Fishery Management Councils to be troubling…
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Gloucester Daily Times (MA): Fishermen, Farming, Mining Groups Decry Ocean Zoning A national alliance of fishing groups, including the Gloucester-based Northeast Seafood Coalition, and advocates for the nation’s farmers, ranchers, builders and miners have urged Congress to negate President Obama’s National Ocean Policy, rolled out in 2010 via executive order…
Seafood Coalition: Letter to the Chairman of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee In a November 7, 2011 letter to the Chairman of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, the Seafood Coalition expressed its appreciation for recent congressional oversight hearings, adding that testimony at the hearings demonstrates “the need for Congressional action barring the Administration from continuing to
Juneau Empire: Murkowski Claims Credit for Blocking Ocean Funding A Senate appropriations bill that passed contained funding for several federal agencies, but also specifically “defunded” a marine planning program that some development advocates worried could hurt the state…
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Panama City (FL) News Herald: Southerland Spars with National Ocean Policy Teams Members PANAMA CITY — Verbal sparing on Capital Hill between U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland and two members of the National Ocean Policy team highlighted a disagreement over the Obama Administration’s coastal policies. Southerland, R-Panama City, took the Obama Administration to task for “misleading