December 28, 2017 NC Policy Watch December 27, 2017 By Lisa Sorg New science about the hazards of seismic air gun testing could waylay plans of four international companies that had planned to explore and drill for oil and gas off the North Carolina coast. As part of its consistency review, the state Division of […]
December 4, 2017 Charleston Post and Courier December 3, 2017 You wouldn’t know it in coastal South Carolina, but some state lawmakers are still open to offshore oil exploration. That needs to change. Testifying before an ad hoc House committee on offshore drilling this week, Sen. Stephen Goldfinch, R-Murrells Inlet, argued for a statewide
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November 28, 2017 Charleston Post and Courier November 26, 2017 By Bo Petersen Rare, imperiled right whales will be offshore soon. A few lucky boaters might catch a glimpse of what could be the few left of the species. After an encouraging rebound over the past few decades, the Northern right whales’ calving appears to
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November 15, 2017 BY LEE TALBOT, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR THE HILL At the International Whaling Commission’s Scientific Committee in 1969, I pointed out that there was more economic benefit from whale watching than whale hunting. My fellow committee members laughed skeptically. After all, their job was to provide a scientific rationale for bigger whale hunting quotas
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November 7, 2017 The Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel November 7, 2017 By THE FORT LAUDERDALE SUN SENTINEL The last thing U.S. territory needs is the whiff of scandal involving aid efforts. Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory of 3.4 million people, continues to struggle with the largest power outage in our nation’s history. Nearly six weeks
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October 29, 2017 PBS NewsHour October 25, 2017 By Teresa L. Carey Even without ears, oysters are “clamming up” when they hear too much noise in the ocean. In response to sounds similar to cargo ships, oysters slam their shells closed, seemingly to protect their soft bodies, according to a study published Wednesday in PLOS
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October 22, 2017 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette October 17, 2017 By Nico Grant / Bloomberg News An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week may be the largest in the U.S. since the 2010 blowout at BP’s Macondo well that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig and killed 11 people. LLOG Exploration reported about 7,950 to
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October 20, 2017 Charleston Post and Courier October 19, 2017 Despite nearly universal opposition to offshore drilling among coastal South Carolina residents and their elected representatives, state Sen. Stephen Goldfinch, R-Murrell’s Inlet, recently told a congressional panel that Georgetown would be an ideal spot for the oil industry to build the infrastructure needed to support
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October 12, 2017 Myrtle Beach Sun News October 11, 2017 By Audrey Hudson Activists who oppose offshore drilling and seismic testing gathered at Plyler Park in May for the Hands Across the Sand event sponsored in Myrtle Beach by SODA and the Grand Strand Surfrider Foundation. Matt Silfer for The Sun News. Testifying before a congressional
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October 7, 2017 Southern New Jersey Development Council October 6, 2017 The European energy company developing a wind farm 10 miles off Atlantic City is exiting the fossil-fuels business and going all-in on sustainable energy. The Atlantic City project is on track to open between 2020 and 2025, said Thomas Brostrom, president of North American
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