The Post and Courier on a bill that will help strengthen partnerships between historically black colleges and universities and federal agencies:
Among the notable bills awaiting President Donald Trump’s signature during his last weeks in office is a welcome bipartisan measure to help strengthen partnerships between historically black colleges and universities and federal agencies.
The HBCU PARTNERS Act writes into law a Trump executive order raising the profile of HBCUs within the federal government and establishing an advisory body at the White House, ensuring a dedicated pathway for their concerns. The measure, introduced by U.S. Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Chris Coons D-Del., also should help minimize the shocks to the highly dependent HBCUs of changes in federal policies that inadvertently hurt their finances and their students’ welfare.
San Simeon.
The former
Santa Maria, Ca., resident told prosecutors that he and another person had driven to an elephant seal viewing area near the Piedras Blancas State Marine Reserve that night.
Using .45-caliber pistol, Gerbich shot and killed a northern elephant seal resting on the beach in the
Piedras Blancas rookery, according to the plea agreement.
‘The next day, the elephant seal was discovered on the beach with a bullet hole in its head,’ the court document states.
It’s FriYAY! Piedras Blancas Rookery is the only elephant seal rookery in the world that is easily accessible, free & open to the public every day. Also, it is just down the road from the BLM-managed Piedras Blancas Light Station. #DiscovertheCoast#VisitCaliforniapic.twitter.com/rDW2P3Rrmo
Petition demands emergency whale protection measures
ELLSWORTH Four conservation and wildlife-protection groups have filed a petition with the National Marine Fisheries Service seeking immediate emergency action under the Marine Mammal Protection Act to protect endangered right whales from entanglement.
Specifically, the Center for Biological Diversity, Conservation Law Foundation, Defenders of Wildlife and the Humane Society of the United States are asking “that NMFS find that deaths and serious injuries of North Atlantic right whales from commercial fisheries are having, or are likely to have, an immediate and significant adverse impact on the species,” the petition states.
“Petitioners further request that NMFS take certain measures to help alleviate such emergency, including but not limited to (1) issuing emergency regulations that prohibit the use of trap/pot and gillnet fishing using static vertical lines in particular areas; and (2) expanding two existing closures b
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Petition demands emergency whale protection measures
ELLSWORTH Four conservation and wildlife-protection groups have filed a petition with the National Marine Fisheries Service seeking immediate emergency action under the Marine Mammal Protection Act to protect endangered right whales from entanglement.
Specifically, the Center for Biological Diversity, Conservation Law Foundation, Defenders of Wildlife and the Humane Society of the United States are asking “that NMFS find that deaths and serious injuries of North Atlantic right whales from commercial fisheries are having, or are likely to have, an immediate and significant adverse impact on the species,” the petition states.
“Petitioners further request that NMFS take certain measures to help alleviate such emergency, including but not limited to (1) issuing emergency regulations that prohibit the use of trap/pot and gillnet fishing using static vertical lines in particular areas; and (2) expanding two existing closures