Environmentalists said they didn’t want decades of restoration work overlooked while the federal government favors a controversial liquefied natural-gas terminal in Mount Hope Bay.
The head of a fishermen’s wives group in Massachusetts said she had been waiting 33 years for the federal government to take a more unified approach to restoring fisheries and cleaning up coastal waters.
More than 250 people from Maine to South Carolina crowded a public hearing at the Rhode Island Convention Center on Thursday and 70 of them requested time to officially comment on a special Ocean Study Task Force created by President Obama to recommend a new, national ocean policy to better protect the country’s oceans.
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