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Tipoffs for Maine (New England) Newsletter for Monday October 02, 2023 ( 2 items )  

Emergency Right Whale Petition Seeks Overdue Protections From Vessel Strikes
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- The Conservation Law Foundation issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2023: Conservation groups filed an emergency rulemaking petition with NOAA Fisheries today to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from being struck and killed by vessels along the U.S. East Coast. Today's filing comes ahead of the upcoming calving season. The request mirrors a similar 2022 petition, which the agency denied. As an explanation for last year's denial, the a  more

Environmental Groups Sound Alarm on LNG Industry's 'Hydrogen-Ready' Bait-and-Switch
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Friends of the Earth issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2023: Today, 25 National and Gulf groups sent a letter to the Department of Energy, urging that no funding from the Regional Hydrogen Hub program be used to subsidize LNG infrastructure under the guise of 'hydrogen-ready' exports. Despite technical and economic barriers to hydrogen-ready LNG, recent statements from the G7 forum raise concerns that the United States could be lending political and financia  more