Oregon coastal advocates are calling for a wholesale scrapping of the program, citing the need for certainty in protecting our coastal communities and economies. National Ocean Economics Program statistics are cited in the rationale.
Dr. Juliano Calil, Center for the Blue Economy Senior Fellow and Adjunct Faculty at the Middlebury Institute, is getting some press for his recent creation of "Sea Level Rise Explorer."
Center for the Blue Economy Director of Research, Dr. Charles Colgan, is quoted in this article on the state of Maine's new Office of Policy Innovation and the Future.
Oregon has permanently banned offshore drilling in the midst of a federal push to open 90 percent of federal waters to oil exploration. The Center for the Blue Economy's National Ocean Economics statistics are a part of the reason why.
