Panel Leaders Flunk U.S. Ocean Policies

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - Leaders of two expert commissions that spent years examining the nation's ocean policies give the Congress, Bush administration and governors a near-failing grade for not moving quickly enough to address hundreds of their recommendations.

The presidential panel chaired by James Watkins, a retired Navy admiral and former energy secretary, recommended in September 2004 creating a new trust fund, boosting research, improving fisheries management and consolidating federal oversight among 212 recommendations in its 610-page final report, the first federal review of ocean policy in 35 years.

The privately funded Pew Oceans Commission chaired by Leon Panetta, former President Clinton's White House chief of staff, reached many of the same conclusions a year earlier.

Now, members of the former commissions have joined forces, saying the government's "D+" effort so far could imperil the oceans' health and abundance if the problems are left untended much longer.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/saving_oceans

[DeepModem Mom]

1. Another scary report. Are we doing anything at all...

to protect the earth?

[saigon68]

3. We are Blasting the Shit out of thousands of Iraqis

Littering the world with depleted Uranium.

Getting tax breaks for 6500 pound SUVs that get 9 miles per gallon

"ECONOMIC FREEDOM AND PROFITS ARE ON THE MARCH"

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[hatrack]

2. Quick - call for another study!

Have them present a blue-ribbon report in, oh, I don't know . . . 2029!!!