• People

First Woman and African To Lead World Trade Organizations Starts With Fisheries Subsidies

• fisheries
• fishing subsidies
• Natural Resources
• subsidies
• sustainability
• United Nations
• women
• World Trade Organization

The new Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, an economist from Nigeria, made ending fishing subsidies by governments her first priority on Monday, according to E&E News.  This has long been a priority for the WTO, but her decision also reflects the importance of women in promoting and ensuring sustainable fishing globally.

Why This Matters:  As we celebrate Women’s History Month, we wanted to shine a light on women’s contributions to the natural resource economy.

• People

Interview With Gina McCarthy: EPA And Joe Biden Have a Sweet History

• clean power plan
• climate crisis
• environment
• EPA
• fracking
• Infrastructure
• jobs
• Natural Resources

This week, we spoke to former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy about the 50th anniversary of the agency’s creation.  McCarthy is excited about the agency being able to return to its mission, re-establish its science, and put people first again. EPA has a really rich 50-year history and certainly that history is not about killing jobs […]

• Ocean

Mallows Bay-Potomac River Proposed New Marine Sanctuary One Step Closer To Designation

• Chesapeake Bay
• conservation
• cultural heritage
• Maryland
• National Marine Sanctuary
• Natural Resources
• ocean
• shipwreck

The first new National Marine Sanctuary in many years, which will be the closest one to the nation’s Capitol, took another important step toward final approval last Friday when the final Environmental Impact Statement for the sanctuary was published in the Federal Register. 

• People

Exclusive Interview with House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raúl Grijalva

• conservation
• dem
• democrats
• national monuments
• Natural Resources

Since Democrats have taken back the House of Representatives, climate change and conservation are finally back on the agenda in Congress. As our last interview of Earth Week, we wanted to chat with the Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, Rep. Raúl Grijalva, about his priorities for the committee and how his party can […]

• Politics

First House hearings on climate in nearly a decade dive right into the issues

• Capitol Hill
• climate change
• democrats
• Energy and Commerce
• Green New Deal
• Natural Resources

Yesterday both the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change as well as the Natural Resources Committee held hearings to address climate change, which was the first time in nearly a decade that members of the House discussed and acknowledged the issue.

• Politics

Climate change back on the agenda in Washington

• California
• Castor
• climate change
• democrats
• Dems
• Energy and Commerce
• Gavin Newsom
• Grijalva
• hearings
• Natural Resources
• Pallone

The new Democratic majority in the House of Representatives was sworn in last week and they’ve already set an agenda for hearings addressing climate change. Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) as well as Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) have already scheduled hearings that will put climate change back into the political dialogue on Capitol Hill.