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SARASOTA, FL On Wednesday, December 9, the Environmental Appeals Board will hear arguments in Center for Food Safety (CFS), the Don t Cage Our Ocean Coalition, and local allies legal appeal challenging Environmental Protection Agency s (EPA) pollution discharge permit for Velella Epsilon, the first ever industrial finfish aqua ....
WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a nationwide permit facilitating the rapid development and construction of large-scale commercial finfish aquaculture facilities in federal waters, among other major industries. The permit, which takes effect on March 15, 2021, will allow corporations to speed and scale up the development of industrial fish farms. This form of aquaculture uses large, floating net pens and cages that allow pollution, like excess feed, fish waste and chemicals, to flow freely into open waters, damaging marine ecosystems and harming the local fishing communities and coastal economies that depend on them. The new rule follows the Trump administration’s executive order mandating federal agencies to fast-track development, while cutting environmental review processes and other conservation measures. ....
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo. Photo by Kenneth C. Zirkel/Creative Commons/Wikipedia. President-elect Joe Biden on Friday tapped Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to head the Department of Commerce, an agency that will take a leading role in his administration’s priority issues around the economy, environment and climate. Raimondo, 49, was born and raised in Rhode Island and is the state’s first female governor. With a business background in the financial industry, she is seen as firmly in the centrist wing of the Democratic party, despite Republican critics’ contention that the state has been less business-friendly under her administration. ....