Obama task force calls for National Ocean Council

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Source: AP

SAN FRANCISCO — The Obama administration on Thursday released the first glimpse of a plan to strengthen the way the nation manages the oceans, coasts and the Great Lakes.

President Barack Obama's Ocean Policy Task Force — comprised of 24 officials from the U.S. Department of Interior to the U.S. Navy — recommended creating a new National Ocean Council with power to coordinate and hold accountable myriad federal agencies in conservation and marine planning efforts.

"Right now (ocean policy) is done on a piecemeal basis, one agency regulating fisheries, one shipping, one water quality, another national security and there's no real mechanized thinking on how sectors interact with each other," said Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a task force member.

"Today is a historic day. For the first time, we as a nation say loudly and clearly that healthy oceans matter," she said.

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[BlooInBloo]

1. Why does Obama continue betraying us?

[mopinko]

3. right?

geez. what a bushie.

[Cha]

6. You know Bloo

is being sarcastic, right?

[mopinko]

8. yeah, you know

i am, too, right?

[Cha]

9. No, I didn't know..

Sorry, mo:P

[mopinko]

11. 'sokay

hard to tell around here sometimes.

[Cha]

5. Because some are still stuck in those

Orwellian years of yore when Black was White, Crooked was Straight, Down was Up, Unbridled Pollution was Clean Sky Initiatives?:)

[Ian David]

2. Obama announces appointments to National Ocean Council

[jgraz]

4. Does this mean we'll get an...

OCEAN CZAR??? :scared:

[Cha]

7. Lol!

King Neptune~

[DavidDvorkin]

10. A sea-zer.

[jgraz]

13. You did that on porpoise.

[DavidDvorkin]

14. Politics is fishy.

[Kingofalldems]

12. Great idea! We need something like this

And BTW, Beck will go berserk over this one.