White House Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Science and Technology Policy| Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force | NOAA http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ceq/napdraft6_2_11_final.pdf Take Force site site: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/adaptation [E&E News PM story by Paul Quinlan] The report offers the following recommendations for agencies: Improve the quality of water resources and climate change information available to decisionmakers. … Continue reading »
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Strategic Action Plan for National Water Policy
White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/oceans/sap This draft plan would cover stewardship of the U.S. oceans, coastal areas and the Great Lakes: Read the Strategic Action Plan Content Outlines for the following nine priority objectives: 1. Ecosystem-Based Management: Adopt ecosystem-based management as a foundational principle for the comprehensive management of the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes. … Continue reading »
Clean Energy from America’s Oceans: Permitting and Financing Challenges to the U.S. Offshore Wind Industry
Center for American Progress / by Michael Conathan and Richard Caperton http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0006166 [Abstract] For 87 days in the spring and summer of 2010, an undersea gusher of oil continuously reminded Americans of the toll energy development can take on our oceans. Approximately 3,500 oil rigs and platforms were operating in U.S. waters at the time … Continue reading »
