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#marinelife 🐋🌏Tommorrow the High Seas are officially protected by international law! Find out more! Remember to celebrate the victories. It keeps you going when the work gets hard robverchick.substack.com

🐋🌏Good news. Take a look. robverchick.substack.com

Please join, share, and comment. #oceans #climateaction #resilience #sustainability #law

🌎🐙For the new year, let’s set some goals to protect our ocean. Do I have to like sharks? Can you still have that tuna melt? I’ll write more on Substack later this week.

Y'all, I’m launching a Substack in early January focused on ocean resilience and climate stories. More soon.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “No Kings NOLA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

The day's finally here: Auridia has launched! Thanks again to everybody who has tested it, given feedback, or just shown support over the last year or so. It's 15% off this week, get it here! store.steampowered.com/app/3443080/...

Auridia's been shortlisted for Best International Game at SXSW Sydney 2025! Great way to wrap up launch week. I'll have a booth there Oct 17-18, I'm looking forward to my first visit to Sydney!

It is widely accepted that #ocean & #marine #ecosystems are seriously at risk from #human-induced #stressors. Esteban-Cantillo et al. propose 6 #policy recommendations re marine conservation, eg, using transdisciplinary & innovative knowledge to drive #conservation strategies doi.org/10.1038/s441...

Lawmakers push carbon capture & storage, putting LA residents at risk and sacrificing safety and property rights. Check out the latest guest column from @nolanews.bsky.social featuring Board Member Rob Verchick and colleague Martha Thibaut. @robverchick.bsky.social www.nola.com/opinions/gue...

🌎Carbon-capture-and-storage piles big risks on Louisiana residents. Lawmakers are sacrificing safety and private property rights too. See my op-ed with Martha Thibaut. lnkd.in/gEfDRjNi

Hazard mitigation funding “didn’t just pop out of nowhere — it actually came in response to a really big financial problem the federal government was experiencing," said Board Member Robert Verchick. @robverchick.bsky.social www.insurancejournal.com/news/nationa...

GOP is giving up on law and order. Its budget bill would shield Trump from legal rulings by defanging court enforcement power. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Really? The incompetence is breathtaking. gothamist.com/news/feds-ac...

Not good, not safe. Climate crisis is here Now. Weather is more unpredictable and violent.

Always been a fan of due process. Here’s where it all started apnews.com/article/harv...

🌎More government waste: Trump says FEMA will scale back its Hazard Mitigation program. This program SAVES many times the $$$ it costs by helping people rebuild more safely or move to safer areas. Pro tip: Caring about people is good for the bottom line.

Folks, this is how it's done. Science will not be silenced. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Great news! www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...

🌎After Trump’s bellicose lawsuits against MI and VT, Puerto Rico dropped its suit against Big Oil over climate impacts. A shame, given what PR has suffered from Hurricane Maria.

Let’s see if I understand: Trump wants Americans to have MORE children but to buy FEWER toys for them all.

🌎Now Trump is suing HI and MI to BLOCK them from suing Big Oil for climate damages. (HI has since filed such a lawsuit.) Kind of bonkers. The normal way is to wait for the lawsuit, intervene, then move for dismissal. Not that there's a real claim, but that's the process. This is just bullying.

🌎🦑So Trump just canned all authors of the upcoming National Climate Assessment. Even though (1) Congress requires an NCA and (2) states and munis depend on it to protect people and property. Hope authors complete their work anyway and publish it in a peer reviewed form. Don’t give up. We need you!

🌎🦑Because a climate crisis is not enough--Trump is now courting an ocean crisis. He thinks we need these metals for batteries? Apple, Google, and BMW don't, which is why they support a moratorium! Can't we please be on the right side of future technology? So much losing. www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...

Here's a copy of the complaint Harvard filed in its lawsuit against the federal government to halt the funding freeze. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

🌎🦑I'm skeptical of the legality on this. Marine monuments are created under the Antiquities Act. The law's text allows POTUS to create such areas, but grants no authority, as I read it, to significantly erase existing protections. The lawsuits are coming! thehill.com/policy/energ...

Harvard Law School, my alma mater, is centering its fundraising call to alums on these words, etched in Langdell Hall: “You are ready to aid in the shaping and application of those wise restraints that make us free.” Amen.

Andy Borowitz is right. Trump has achieved the impossible: getting Americans to LIKE Harvard.

To be clear, again, there is no legal basis for the IRS to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status. Very hard to imagine the agency doing something this bone-headed, even in these times.

To be clear, POTUS broke the law when he suggested the IRS revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

🌎Tragic news. Kentucky, one of the damaged states, is, even as we speak, suing Trump's FEMA over an earlier grant of disaster aid that a court has ordered but which is still being withheld. This is not just stupid, it's cruel. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🌎A very big deal www.wbrz.com/news/jury-or...

Not a good look www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🌎🦑My Loyola New Orleans law colleague, Marianne Cufone, is keeping oceans and fisheries safe! Judge dumps on Trump's lazy fish farm regs. lailluminator.com/2025/04/03/f...

Reports Trump's tariffs seem to assume he has the legal authority to impose these tariffs. There is real reason to doubt that. And recent SCOTUS rulings on the Major Questions Doctrine suggest even more strongly that Trump is acting illegally. Want to be a plaintiff? reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Absolutely insane. "The Trump administration has abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the United States pay their heating and cooling bills." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/c...

What are Trump & Musk doing to our environmental protections? Can they be stopped? Check out this webinar w me, Vicki Arroyo (Georgetown), and Kirsten Engel (University of Arizona), and Isabel Medina (Loyola). Friday, April 4, 2-3PM Central. Registration is free. 🌎 mailchi.mp/03981a372a01...

FEMA built a climate mapping tool to help communities plan for extreme risks. Trump dumped it. The Guardian recreated the searchable maps and put them online. Check it out. And consider supporting the Guardian for its creativity and commitment! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Fulbright program, which has benefited so many, including me, has seen its funds frozen. Global exchange is key for global peace and prosperity. Let’s stand up for Fulbright. fulbright.org/advocacy/?mc...

For those interested in tracking Trump’s implementation of Project 2025, find our tracker here. Stay informed! progressivereform.org/tracking-tru...

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So much for efficiency. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump wants Greenland, but the environment may resist in its own way. “You can say there’s going to be less ice, but there’s going to be a lot more ice drifting around to puncture ships,” Melody Brown Burkins, director of the Institute of Arctic Studies at Dartmouth College.

If democracy dies in darkness, why is WaPo shutting off the lights? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

Congress is rushing to repeal recent health and environmental protections using an express-lane tool that bypasses even the Senate filibuster. We at @progressivereform.bsky.social are tracking that process to keep you informed so you can speak up. 🌎 progressivereform.org/tracking-tru...

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c... 🌎

Q:how many more fed workers do we have now compared to 1950? A: about the same. See receipts at link. BTW, that’s not efficient bc the feds use contractors to do the extra work and that costs more. fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2024/12/the-...

I still believe that real power is People Power. We can change things if we focus on our values, stick together, and are kind to ourselves www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Can we save coral? I think so. Moorea reel part deux. 🦑🌎