Rob Verchick

Four things to know about blue carbon.🦑🌎 robverchick.substack.com/p/theres-car...

🌏🦑Forecasters trust AI. Should we? robverchick.substack.com/p/hurricanes...

🌏🦑When nature sets you free. robverchick.substack.com/p/a-pause-fo...

🌎🦑Fascinating shot from this morning's Nautilus Live feed near Hawaii: a sea star on what appears to be a beaked whale skull. Learn more here. robverchick.substack.com/p/the-ocean-...

A research ship is exploring the deep Pacific. You can watch from home🦑🌏 robverchick.substack.com/p/the-ocean-...

A research ship is exploring the deep Pacific. You can watch from home. robverchick.substack.com/p/the-ocean-...

LNG helped pay for the fish. Their survival depends on what happens next.🌎🦑 robverchick.substack.com/p/louisiana-...

🌎🦑Four things to know about an unusual Fourth Amendment fight at sea robverchick.substack.com/p/can-the-st...

🌎🦑The Supreme Court didn’t decide whether the project is legal. But its 5–4 ruling raises a bigger question: who gets to sue when nature is harmed? robverchick.substack.com/p/what-trump...

🌎🦑SpaceX wants to build the world’s largest spaceport on Louisiana’s coast. Louisiana should make sure it’s done right. robverchick.substack.com/p/louisiana-...

🌎🦑First it was steel. Now it's steelhead. robverchick.substack.com/p/trumps-can...

🌎🦑Uncle Sol and the Fight Over Deep-Sea Mining

🦑🌏Four things to know about the Law of the Sea—and whether Iran and Oman can charge ships for passage robverchick.substack.com/p/a-phantom-...

🌏🦑Climate change is a stress test that shows flaws in our insurance markets, worker-safety protections, and in coastal management. robverchick.substack.com/p/what-this-...

🦑🌏Field Notes: Three Ways to Think about Deep-Sea Mining (part 2) open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

EPA analyses have long considered the value of human lives. CPR's Rob Verchick, a Loyola New Orleans law professor and former EPA official, says assigning zero value is “departing from what has been the norm at the EPA” across administrations. @robverchick.bsky.social www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Politicizing a branch of the military is dangerous.

🦑🌎Berkeley Law's Dan Farber and I unpack the legal questions behind the Coast Guard's removal of the sloop Clearwater from New York Harbor's July 4th Parade. open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

🌏🦑A Hudson Valley sloop is booted out of a parade for speaking its mind. open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

🌎Big Oil is invading our university research centers and middle-school classrooms open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

Signs of summer: found a bat snoozing in an umbrella on the deck.

🦑🌎Do climate lawsuits against Big Oil have a shot? It’s possible. Here are some cases to watch. My most recent Op-Ed. thehill.com/opinion/ener...

CPR's @robverchick.bsky.social has thoughts on this in his new piece featured in The Hill: thehill.com/opinion/ener...

🦑🌏Came upon this perfect sentence by Marcel Proust: “To ask pity from our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of tides.”

🌎🦑Day 12: Reflecting Pool is still green. (Satire Alert!) open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

🦑🌎Imagine if the media covered The Gulf of Mexico’s algal “dead zone” as enthusiastically as it covers the algae in an 18-inch-deep reflecting pool.

🌎All sizzle and no steak. open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

🦑🌏Trump is obsessed with deep sea mining. We need to pay attention. substack.com/@robverchick...

🌏🦑Scientists at NOAA say El Niño officially began yesterday. It will be a bumpy ride. Here’s what you should know. open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

🦑🌎A battery in a rock? open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

🦑🌎 ‘António Guterrez, the UN secretary general, said: “We cannot keep treating the ocean as limitless. Urgent global collaboration is needed to protect marine ecosystems.’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🦑🌏Help shape the future of "Blue Tomorrow." open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

🦑🌎https://open.substack.com/pub/robverchick/p/el-nino-is-coming-4-things-you-should?r=7j5v2&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

🌎🦑https://substack.com/@robverchick/note/c-267196455?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=7j5v2

🦑🌎Can you say "sobrecargado"? open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

A true honor to be the first guest on Dr. Rob Verchick's Substack titled Voices for a Blue Tomorrow. I hope you enjoy Rob's and my conversation about Environmental Awakenings, Green Infrastructure, and Seasonal Housing for Purple Martins! @robverchick.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

Crossover happens! Solar and wind provide more power than gas. Fossil fuel corruption won’t stop progress. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

🌏🦑Super inspiring, whether you are a fan of levees or migrating swallows! open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

🦑🌎Three reactions to this sobering reality. open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

🦑🌏A Pause for Poetry Inspiration at the end of the semester. What is your place in the family of things?https://open.substack.com/pub/robverchick/p/a-pause-for-poetry?r=7j5v2&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

🦑🌏Cocaine Fish Our bad habits are corrupting the sea life. open.substack.com/pub/robverch...

🌏🦑On Earth Day, a warning and some hope.

🦑🌎UPDATE: LA Rep. Orgeron (sponsor of the pro-menhaden bills) wrote me to ask for your help. IF YOU VOTE IN LOUISIANA & care about the Gulf, email him at jorgeron@legis.la.gov with “MENHADEN” in the subject line & let him know. That helps him make the case. Good science is key, but it’s not enough.

🦑🌏Let's take some action! Everyone depends on menhaden—dolphins, whales, game fish, and us.

🦑🌎This is pretty insane. The federal offices in charge of offshore oil safety (BSSE) and offshore oil permitting (BOEM) have potentially conflicting interests. That’s why their tasks were separated after the BP Oil Spill, one of the largest environment disasters in our history!

A Super El Niño is coming, which means a big risk of heatwaves, the biggest killer of all disasters in the US. I'm trying to get FEMA to take this more seriously. See below.

🌏🦑The ocean and moon are bound by more than gravity. Let's not mine either one.

🌏🦑From the Guardian: "An oil slick from a stricken Iranian ship threatens to contaminate one of the Middle East’s most important wetlands, satellite image analysis suggests" I, along with many others, warned about this.

Um, just sayin’.

🦑🌎If you can't laugh, you'll cry. My recent take.