Rachel Mathews
@rachelmathews.bsky.social
Oceans attorney @ Center for Biological Diversity, also animal rights. Views my own.
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If you haven't learned to clean up after yourself, you shouldn't get more chances to make a mess, right? 🤔Especially if your oily mess is in the ocean, in federal waters that belong to all of us. 🌊
The Center and partners just petitioned to make that a rule:
www.courthousenews.com/environmenta...
The Center and partners just petitioned to make that a rule:
www.courthousenews.com/environmenta...
Environmentalists seek offshore drilling ban for companies with abandoned wells
With thousands of unplugged wells and platforms overdue for decommission, environmental groups seek ways to limit offshore drilling expansion.
www.courthousenews.com
June 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If you haven't learned to clean up after yourself, you shouldn't get more chances to make a mess, right? 🤔Especially if your oily mess is in the ocean, in federal waters that belong to all of us. 🌊
The Center and partners just petitioned to make that a rule:
www.courthousenews.com/environmenta...
The Center and partners just petitioned to make that a rule:
www.courthousenews.com/environmenta...
Reposted by Rachel Mathews
Between 60,000 and 80,000 diamondback terrapins drown in crab traps each year. It doesn't have to be this way.
You can help: Tell the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to mandate bycatch-reduction devices and save these beautiful, beloved turtles 🐢➡️ biodiv.us/4iTlt9Z
You can help: Tell the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to mandate bycatch-reduction devices and save these beautiful, beloved turtles 🐢➡️ biodiv.us/4iTlt9Z
April 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Between 60,000 and 80,000 diamondback terrapins drown in crab traps each year. It doesn't have to be this way.
You can help: Tell the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to mandate bycatch-reduction devices and save these beautiful, beloved turtles 🐢➡️ biodiv.us/4iTlt9Z
You can help: Tell the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to mandate bycatch-reduction devices and save these beautiful, beloved turtles 🐢➡️ biodiv.us/4iTlt9Z
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100+ Californians overflow Santa Barbara County meeting today with one message: “Don’t Enable Sable.”
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social and @wadecrowfoot.bsky.social, please prevent restart of the Santa Ynez Unit pipeline that ruptured and spilled oil 10 years ago.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social and @wadecrowfoot.bsky.social, please prevent restart of the Santa Ynez Unit pipeline that ruptured and spilled oil 10 years ago.
February 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
100+ Californians overflow Santa Barbara County meeting today with one message: “Don’t Enable Sable.”
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social and @wadecrowfoot.bsky.social, please prevent restart of the Santa Ynez Unit pipeline that ruptured and spilled oil 10 years ago.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social and @wadecrowfoot.bsky.social, please prevent restart of the Santa Ynez Unit pipeline that ruptured and spilled oil 10 years ago.
Excellent reporting on the oil industry’s playbook to avoid cleaning up its mess.
More than 2 million oil and gas wells sit unplugged in the U.S., many leaking contaminants into waterways, farmland and neighborhoods.
Time and time again, oil companies have walked away — leaving taxpayers to pay for cleanup. Here’s how.
Time and time again, oil companies have walked away — leaving taxpayers to pay for cleanup. Here’s how.
The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public
Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry.
propub.li
January 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Excellent reporting on the oil industry’s playbook to avoid cleaning up its mess.
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Tragic news: Whale entanglements are at a six year high. NOAA Fisheries has released preliminary data showing that 34 whales have been confirmed entangled in fishing gear off the U.S. West Coast in 2024.
You can help stop this. ⬇️⬇️
You can help stop this. ⬇️⬇️
Speak Up for Whale-Safe Fishing Gear
Each year hundreds of thousands of sea creatures get caught in commercial fishing gear lines, which can starve, wound, suffocate and even drown them. Thankfully, there’s a solution that will protect w...
bit.ly
December 19, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Tragic news: Whale entanglements are at a six year high. NOAA Fisheries has released preliminary data showing that 34 whales have been confirmed entangled in fishing gear off the U.S. West Coast in 2024.
You can help stop this. ⬇️⬇️
You can help stop this. ⬇️⬇️