Tag: National Marine Fisheries Service
Orsted shareholders approve $9.4B rights issue amid threats to U.S. offshore...
PROVIDENCE – Revolution Wind developer Orsted A/S won shareholder approval for its emergency $9.4 billion rights issue Friday, as the Danish company fights President...
Summer 2025 Blue & You Regional Speaker Series launches June 18
NEWPORT – The fifth annual Summer 2025 Blue & You Regional Speaker Series, a collaboration between Innovate Newport, Ocean Tech Hub and the Grow Blue Strategy,...
R.I.’s ‘Squid Squad’ targeted in DOGE purge of NOAA
The head of squid research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Narragansett Bay facility is among the hundreds of agency employees nationwide who...
SCOTUS weakens federal regulators, overturning decades-old Chevron decision
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Friday upended a 40-year-old decision that made it easier for the federal government to regulate the environment,...
Local nonprofit Green Oceans suing to overturn wind farm development approvals
LITTLE COMPTON – A local nonprofit organization has filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., against multiple U.S. agencies over...
Feds try to improve fishing data with new monitoring rules
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Changes to U.S. rules about the monitoring of Northeast commercial fishing activities are going into effect this month with a...
Lobster rules to protect whale will wait 2 years, judge says
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – A federal judge has ruled that new lobster fishing restrictions designed to conserve rare whales will be delayed until 2024...
Map aims to reduce fishing, offshore wind conflicts
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A University of Rhode Island professor has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to create a...
Trump said to advance seismic surveys for oil in Atlantic
NEW YORK - The Trump administration is taking a major step toward allowing a first-in-a-generation seismic search for oil and gas under Atlantic waters, despite...
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