🦑🌏Cocaine Fish Our bad habits are corrupting the sea life. open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

🌏🦑On Earth Day, a warning and some hope.

🦑🌎UPDATE: LA Rep. Orgeron (sponsor of the pro-menhaden bills) wrote me to ask for your help. IF YOU VOTE IN LOUISIANA & care about the Gulf, email him at [email protected] with “MENHADEN” in the subject line & let him know. That helps him make the case. Good science is key, but it’s not enough.

🦑🌏Let's take some action! Everyone depends on menhaden—dolphins, whales, game fish, and us.

🦑🌎This is pretty insane. The federal offices in charge of offshore oil safety (BSSE) and offshore oil permitting (BOEM) have potentially conflicting interests. That’s why their tasks were separated after the BP Oil Spill, one of the largest environment disasters in our history!

A Super El Niño is coming, which means a big risk of heatwaves, the biggest killer of all disasters in the US. I'm trying to get FEMA to take this more seriously. See below.

🌏🦑The ocean and moon are bound by more than gravity. Let's not mine either one.

🌏🦑From the Guardian: "An oil slick from a stricken Iranian ship threatens to contaminate one of the Middle East’s most important wetlands, satellite image analysis suggests" I, along with many others, warned about this.

Um, just sayin’.

🦑🌎If you can't laugh, you'll cry. My recent take.

🦑🌎Trump’s God Squad meets tomorrow to determine the fate of the extremely endangered Rice’s whale (and other species too). Tune in and speak up. It makes a difference. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Torn on the Bayou Support wetlands advocates and get the ecological jewel we deserve.

A new mapping tool shows the hidden liabilities in contaminated land. Anyone advising others about land acquisition needs to see this! open.substack.com/pub/loyolaen...

One of these things is not like the other.

Let me get this straight: While Germany is buying out coal operators to clean the air, Trump is buying out offshore wind operators to pollute the air. 🌏🦑 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It’s all connected. Give this a read. 🌏 progressivereform.org/cpr-blog/to-...

🦑🌏The Gulf's own whale is in trouble. You can help. robverchick.substack.com/p/trump-v-ri...

A Great Guide as Fossil Fuel Politics and Conflicts Threaten the Ocean open.substack.com/pub/revkin/p... My "other voices" post on @robverchick.bsky.social #oceansky 🧪

Grateful for this shout out from Andy Revkin. Andy’s “Sustain What?” newsletter is one of MY favorites. 🌏🦑 robverchick.substack.com?utm_campaign...

Menhaden, aka as a pogy. The keystone fish of the Gulf!🌎🦑

🦑🌏https://robverchick.substack.com/p/ocean-in-the-crosshairs

About the Iran War and threat to the ocean. 🌏🦑 open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

Well, that didn’t last long. Glad the law firms are still standing tall. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Check out my new post on EPA's abandonment of climate action. 🌏 open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

Kudos to the four law firms that stood firm against Trump's illegal campaign of intimidation: Jenner & Block, Susman Godfrey, Perkins Coie and WilmerHale. Nice when law firms defend the rule of law.

Yikes!🦑🌏 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A look behind the scenes. Check out my new post!🌏🦑 open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

🌎EPA’s axing of its endangerment finding is international news. I was interviewed yesterday about it by Morning Wave in Busan, South Korea. You can watch the segment on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIiT....

I have a new op-ed out about the terrible beating EPA is taking—from POTUS and the agency’s political leadership. An agency I was once so proud and grateful to serve. “If [Congress doesn’t] step up, then the EPA will step back, and Americans will be on their own when facing toxic pollution.”

In a new column, @robverchick.bsky.social details the devastating levels of political threat against the Environmental Protection Agency. “If [Congress doesn’t] step up, then the EPA will step back, and Americans will be on their own when facing toxic pollution.”

Climate, oceans, resilience, and hope. We need to talk more about that. So happy to have started this conversation. Thank you all!! And spread the word.

BOOM! ‘Based on two words separated by 16 others in the IEEPA, the President asserts the independent power to impose tariffs on imports from any country, of any product, at any rate, for any amount of time. Those words cannot bear such weight.’ —C.J. Roberts

U2's outstanding tribute to Minn. protester Renee Good. youtu.be/Y3ziTSYyook?...

What you don't know about those Iranian tankers. I'm almost at 100 subscriptions! Help me break through. Thanks! 🦑🌎 open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

Looks like Trump’s revocation focuses on legal arguments, not the scientific findings, which even his team must know are unassailable. (I was working at the EPA when the endangerment finding was first issued.) More chaos on the horizon.

Trump is messing with our oceans again! The courts should not let him get away with it. 🌎🦑https://open.substack.com/pub/robverchick/p/trump-v-the-seamounts?r=7j5v2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Hope you like my new post on Greenland and the Arctic! Let me know what you think. 🌎🦑

The Ocean Was Born on Land. Look what I just saw! And, yes, it involves the ocean.🦑🌏

🌏🦑Test your ocean knowledge! open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

#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