Congress Ignores Phytoplankton Crisis
Not one member of the House or Senate has uttered one word about the phytoplankton crisis. Not one piece of legislation has been proposed to deal with the problem.
Not one member of the House or Senate has uttered one word about the phytoplankton crisis. Not one piece of legislation has been proposed to deal with the problem.
A bipartisan group in Congress is supporting the Billfish Conservation Act.
H.R. 556 would require oil companies currently operating along California’s coast to clean up their operations and work to ensure reasonable protection of California’s coastal ecosystems. Is that why John Rockefeller opposes the legislation?
If a marine mammal is at a population level that is truly in line with its historically sustainable levels, then it can’t be to blame for the endangered status of their prey or competing species. After all, historically, those species fit together just fine, ecologically speaking. No marine mammal species, historically speaking, drove any other existing marine animal to the brink of extinction… unless you count human beings taking to the sea in their boats as a marine mammal. It’s human activity that has upset the ecological balance of the oceans, not wild marine mammals.
Congressman Tom Allen of Maine, who is running for U.S. Senate this year, has introduced legislation that would confront the Bush White House’s evasions, and specifically require federal government regulations to reduce the number of collisions between ahipping vessels and North Atlantic right whales. Economists have already run the numbers, and concluded that the expense to the trans-Atlantic shipping industry would be very slight.