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Healthy Ocean Coalition

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We are changemakers, a community of ocean lovers, guided by the principle that we are stronger and more influential together.

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Healthy Ocean Coalition @oceancoalition.bsky.social · Feb 19

Policy and advocacy are personal and so is our approach. Since 2015, we've trained more than 300 leaders through our Healthy Ocean Advocacy Academies. We are building a wave of ocean action and climate justice one person at a time.

Help fund our trainings here: secure.actblue.com/donate/hoc2022

Healthy Ocean Coalition @oceancoalition.bsky.social · May 22

7 Directions of Service is an Indigenous-led collective rooted in environmental justice and community organizing, operating on the ancestral homelands of the Occaneechi-Saponi. They're dear friends and partners of ours, please support and share their silent auction! givebutter.com/c/zPXwDE/auc...

YESA Farm Silent Auction: Rooted in Generosity, Growing in Purpose

Nourishing Land, Culture, and Community—One Bid at a Time

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Grist @grist.org · May 19

As temperatures rise, the US Corn Belt could see insurance claims soar.

Crop insurance is a lifeline for farmers. But research shows it's not ready for climate change.

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#Corn #Climate #Insurance #Farms #Farmers #Agriculture

As temperatures rise, the US Corn Belt could see insurance claims soar

Crop insurance is a lifeline for farmers. But research shows it's not ready for climate change.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · May 18

If you’re a scientist with even a little bit of experience talking about your science to the public, I’d encourage you to sign up to do one of these. I can help. 🧪🌎🦑

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 18

Our goal is to have 1000 SUFS Teach Ins across the US, by 9/30.

*GASP* 😮

We know, it's a big goal.

If you've received tax dollars for your science, you have a responsibility to inform *your* community what is at stake: public health, the economy, innovation, and America's global leadership.

Host a teach in. Share science with your community....protest style! Calling back to the teach ins of 1965, we are taking to parks, pubs, & churches to tell our neighborhoods about how the budget cuts will impact them.

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The Weather & Climate Livestream @wclivestream.bsky.social · May 9

Calling all US meteorologists and climate scientists! Starting May 28th, we will be holding a marathon livestream to share our work with the public and show why the services we provide should not be cut. Learn more & sign up to speak here: wcstreamathon.netlify.app

The Weather & Climate Livestream

Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.

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🌊Markus Knigge🐟 @oceanknigge.bsky.social · May 14

Small 🦈 grants by @saveourseas.bsky.social
Thanks for amplifying @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @megmarigold.bsky.social

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Healthy Ocean Coalition @oceancoalition.bsky.social · May 13

Staff and budget cuts are fraying local offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The cuts are already leading to degraded weather forecasts and adding chaos to commercial fisheries. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

Local scientists, fisheries and weather forecasters feeling impact of NOAA cuts

Staff and budget cuts at local offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), are degrading weather forecasts and adding chaos to New England's commercial fisheries. Proposed a...

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🌊Markus Knigge🐟 @oceanknigge.bsky.social · May 10

Opportunity👇:
7-months programme designed to support 24 changemakers through leadership training, mentoring skills, fundraising tools, and critical dialogue.... Deadline 13 June 🗓️
global-diversity.org/the-conserva...

The Conservation & Communities Fellowship - 2025 Call for Applications - Global Diversity Foundation

GDF Conservation and Communities Fellowship 2025 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS An online and in-person programme for Global South leaders and organisations working at the frontline of conservation. APPLY HERE...

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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · May 8

Just imagine what we could fund (schools! healthcare!) if we weren't subsidizing Big Oil and Gas and the destruction they cause.

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are a Violent Betrayal of the American People

The U.S. government’s continued subsidies for the fossil fuel industry cost us billions of dollars every year, as well as our health, safety, and environment.

www.foodandwaterwatch.org

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Rep. Darren Soto @repdarrensoto.bsky.social · May 7

Here are some inconvenient truths:

1⃣Climate change is real
2⃣Oil production has dropped under Pres. Trump
3⃣The GOP reconciliation package adds $4.5T to the national debt

In the Natural Resources Committee, we're asking Republicans to work with us on an organized, long-term clean energy transition.

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Rep. Emily Randall @repemilyrandall.bsky.social · May 6

House Republicans are trying to sell off our public lands to give handouts to big oil.

I’ll be voting no on that.

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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · May 7

Yesterday, GOP leadership told their members *not to speak* during a 14-hour “debate” on their plan to sell off public lands to fund billionaire tax cuts. 🤫

They couldn’t defend it, they just voted for it.

That’s not leadership.

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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social · May 6

I just discovered that the Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee traded stocks of oil and gas companies just as Republicans are about to pass a budget to benefit the very same companies.

The corruption is astounding.

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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social · May 7

Yesterday, I revealed the Chair of the Natural Resources Committee is trading oil & gas stocks right as we're considering a budget with unprecedented handouts to those very same oil & gas companies.

As Republicans try to profit off of the tax breaks they're giving to Big Oil, we're fighting back.

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Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth @elfreth.house.gov · May 7

I came to Congress to steward our natural resources, have honest conversations even when we disagree, and uplift the voices of #MD03.

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Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth @elfreth.house.gov · May 7

15 hours and nearly 100 amendments later, me and my Democratic colleagues continue to use every tool at our disposal to combat the Trump Administration's harmful policies – especially those that threaten the Chesapeake Bay and our state’s precious natural resources.

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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · May 6

This week, in the House Natural Resources Committee, Oregon’s public lands are under attack.

As the Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, I’m using every tool I’ve got to stop the GOP’s reckless push to sell off what belongs to all of us.

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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · May 6

I’m using every single tool at my disposal to stop House Republicans’ Big Oil give away. Our children deserve better.

Politico article on Rep. Dexter’s amendments in the House Natural Resources Committee markup of the Republican budget.

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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · May 6

🧵 House Republicans are trying to gut our environmental protections. As Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee, I’m raising the alarm on the 5 worst climate provisions in their reckless budget reconciliation bill.

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Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández @fernandez.house.gov · May 6

Today, Republicans are holding a yard sale for America’s backyard.

They're jamming through some of the nastiest environmental laws ever seen to give tax cuts to billionaires.

Why? Because they want to raise a billion dollars to pay for those tax cuts. youtube.com/shorts/UbLWw...

Republicans Sacrifice Public Lands and Communities for Billionaire Tax Breaks

YouTube video by Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · May 6

Then there was that time the Republicans didn’t stick around in committee for THEIR OWN reconciliation bill.

We’re motioning to adjourn on this ridiculous bill. #DemsShowUp!

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · May 6

Everything about this Reconciliation bill in Natural Resources is a total lie. It’s bad for our:

- Economy
- Environment
- Communities

That’s why we’re prepared to sit here all day and fight it every step of the way.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · May 6

We’re more than 8 hours into this Reconciliation markup in the House Natural Resources Committee and the GOP has completely stopped engaging on answering basic questions about their own bill.

We have never seen anything like it. It’s going to be a long night.

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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · May 7

In an effort to conceal their scheme to sell off our public lands, House Republicans were ordered by their leadership not to debate or even speak during our 13-hour committee proceeding.

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Rep. Dave Min @congressmin.bsky.social · May 6

We have a moral imperative to address climate change, which will have enormous impacts on the future we leave behind for our kids and beyond.

Today, at the @naturalresources.bsky.social hearing, I spoke out on the GOP's giveaway to Big Oil, the most sweeping attack on our environment in history.

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Rep. Jared Huffman @rephuffman.bsky.social · May 6

Today, Republicans are pushing the most extreme anti-environment bill in American history – betraying our public lands, clean air and water, and the American people in the process.

Republicans are pushing the most extreme anti-environment bill in American history

YouTube video by Congressman Jared Huffman

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