Global brands, including McDonald’s, Tesco, Iglo, Young’s Seafood, Icelandic Seachill, alongside the Norwegian Fishing Vessel Owners Association, Fiskebåt, Russian fishing giant, Karat and Europe’s largest processor of frozen fish, Espersen, have today said “no” to the further expansion of cod fishing into the previously-frozen Northern Barents Sea — an area twice the size of France.
New legislation would make it harder for states and the EPA to regulate toxic chemicals in toys, building materials, and clothing, but President Obama still has a chance to veto.
The Amazon soy moratorium is the result of an unprecedented collaboration between civil society, industry and government. It has already produced a spectacular drop in Amazon deforestation. And now the moratorium will last until — as the renewal document says — it is no longer needed.
“From the standpoint of energy … it’s obvious, we know we’ve got to make changes. So I hope that’s something that we as a district can really start looking at strongly and doing … now,” said Board of Education member Xavier Cason.
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) reported on Thursday May 12 that it was responding to a two mile by thirteen mile sheen in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 97 miles south of Port Fourchon, LA.
Washington, DC - Documents obtained by Greenpeace through two Public Records Act requests reveal that University of Washington fisheries biologist Ray Hilborn has received at least $3.56 million from 69 fishing, seafood and other industry groups. Hilborn, an outspoken denier of overfishing and a critic of marine protected areas, has violated the policies of scientific journals by failing to disclose these conflicts of interest in multiple publications.
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