Environmentalists seek offshore drilling ban for companies with abandoned wells
With thousands of unplugged wells and platforms overdue for decommission, environmental groups seek ways to limit offshore drilling expansion.
If you haven't learned to clean up after yourself, you shouldn't get more chances to make a mess, right? π€Especially if your oily mess is in the ocean, in federal waters that belong to all of us. π
The Center and partners just petitioned to make that a rule:
www.courthousenews.com/environmenta...
24.06.2025 19:28
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Between 60,000 and 80,000 diamondback terrapins drown in crab traps each year. It doesn't have to be this way.
You can help: Tell the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to mandate bycatch-reduction devices and save these beautiful, beloved turtles π’β‘οΈ biodiv.us/4iTlt9Z
03.04.2025 18:20
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100+ Californians overflow Santa Barbara County meeting today with one message: βDonβt Enable Sable.β
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social and @wadecrowfoot.bsky.social, please prevent restart of the Santa Ynez Unit pipeline that ruptured and spilled oil 10 years ago.
25.02.2025 20:45
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Excellent reporting on the oil industryβs playbook to avoid cleaning up its mess.
02.01.2025 15:55
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Speak Up for Whale-Safe Fishing Gear
Each year hundreds of thousands of sea creatures get caught in commercial fishing gear lines, which can starve, wound, suffocate and even drown them. Thankfully, thereβs a solution that will protect w...
Tragic news: Whale entanglements are at a six year high. NOAA Fisheries has released preliminary data showing that 34 whales have been confirmed entangled in fishing gear off the U.S. West Coast in 2024.
You can help stop this. β¬οΈβ¬οΈ
19.12.2024 19:30
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