A decline in the domestic workforce for the seafood industry’s harvesting and processing sector is prompting efforts for modernization and automation of the harvest to reduce the number of workers needed, while increasing skills required of those who get the jobs. That was the message from Gleyn Bledsoe of Washington State University’s Center for Advanced […]
Even as the Trump administration is working to open more and more federal lands up for oil and natural gas exploration, the Interior Department is aiming at rolling back Obama administration rules restricting harmful methane emissions from oil and gas exploration on those lands. The rollback to the rules is being published in the Federal […]
WASHINGTON— The U.S. Supreme Court today declined a challenge to federal protection of bearded seals in Alaska under the Endangered Species Act. The National Marine Fisheries Service listed the species as threatened in 2012 upon concluding that climate change will destroy the sea-ice habitat the seals need to survive. The decision comes just two weeks […]
New York City is making a move against the fossil fuel industry on two fronts. Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday the city is suing five big oil companies for global warming and divesting $5 billion in oil investments from the city’s pension funds. “We’re bringing the fight against climate change straight to the […]