"President Obama on Monday is set to create a national stewardship policy for America’s oceans and Great Lakes, including a type of zoning that could dramatically rebalance the way government regulates offshore drilling, fishing and other marine activities.
The policy would not create new regulations or immediately alter drilling plans or fisheries management. But White House documents and senior administration officials suggest it would strengthen conservation and ecosystem protection.
The initiative culminates more than a year of work by a federal Ocean Policy Task Force, which Obama established last year. After the task force releases its final recommendations, the president is expected to sign an executive order directing federal agencies to adopt and implement them."
Read the full LA Times Article from Monday, July 19th.
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August 13, 2010 at
I tried checking the LA Times article through your link, but I couldn’t find it. In any case, this is welcome news, indeed. There’s nothing much that the administration can accomplish by way of environment-related legislation at the moment because of obstructionists in Congress, but they can certainly “strengthen” the regulatory capacity of our agencies overseeing the welfare and protection of the environment.