State
USM joins new $94 million ocean exploration institute
WLOX
GULFPORT, MS (WDAM) - The University of Southern Mississippi is joining forces with four other nationally renowned ocean science institutions.
Regional
Fish & Wildlife cracking down on condo lights impacting sea turtle hatching
WPMI
GULF SHORES, Ala. (WPMI) — The US Fish and Wildlife Service is cracking down on Alabama beachfront condominiums with lighting that's impacting sea turtle nesting and hatching.
BP to boost Gulf of Mexico spending as shale-focused rivals pull back
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - BP Plc on Monday announced new production units in the Gulf of Mexico, enhancing its standing as the largest producer there at a time when rival global oil majors are scrambling to expand vast U.S. onshore shale drilling.
National
Trump’s EPA illegally dragging its feet on limiting methane gas, judge says
San Francisco Chronicle
The Trump administration has illegally delayed rules limiting the discharge of climate-changing methane gas from landfills around the United States and must act on plans for California and several other states by September, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Safety concerns mount over neonicotinoid pesticides in unexpected places
PBS
For decades, Judy Hoy has run an independent wildlife rehabilitation center from her Montana home, where she also previously performed autopsies on deer struck by cars. In the late 1990s she noticed a bizarre trend: Many deer had pronounced overbites, enlarged right heart ventricles, and damaged or missing thymus glands and scrota.
NOAA picks URI to host its new ocean exploration institute
AP
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday that it has picked the University of Rhode Island as the home of a new institute for ocean exploration.
NOAA said URI will host its Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute and Titanic discoverer Robert Ballard will lead it.
Press Releases
EPA Administrator Discusses Marine Litter and Waste with US Stakeholders at G7 Meeting
05/06/2019
Metz, France (May 5, 2018) - Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler hosted U.S. stakeholders at the G7 Environmental Ministers meeting in Metz, France to discuss ways the government, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector can work to curb marine litter and waste.
