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The Coastal Commission has approved permits for seven seaweed farms – making kelp the fastest growing aquaculture sector in California.

Eroding beaches, king tides and groundwater inundation are already impacting the urban core and it will only get much worse. Here’s what is being considered to limit the damage.

April 30, 2021 By Jim Myers Washington, D.C.—President Joe Biden has nominated former Obama administration official Michael Connor of Colorado to be assistant secretary of the Army for civil works. Currently a partner in the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Connor served as deputy secretary of the Department of the Interior from 2014 until 2017. According to the White House, he played a key role in establishing water policies to address an unprecedented western drought, promoting renewable energy development on ...

Eric S. Laschever Share: On June 15, 2020, Dr. Neil Jacobs, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction, acting for Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, overruled North Carolina’s and South Carolina’s determinations under the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA), 16 U.S.C. §§ 1451–1466, that seismic exploration for oil and gas on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) was inconsistent with their federally approved Coastal Management Programs. Decision & Findings by U.S. Under Sec’y of Com. for Oceans & Atmosphere in the Consistency Appeal of WesternGeco fro...

Border crisis and environmental crisis Posted : 2021-04-25 16:45 By Joe Guzzardi Responding to the consequences of President Biden's wildly out-of-control border mess, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich sued the administration in the U.S. District Court of Arizona. At issue is Biden's unilateral decision to stop border wall construction, and to end the policy which requires asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their petitions are reviewed. The wall and Mexican Migration Protocols are among former President Trump's signature immigration accomplishments, and helped to slow population...