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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🌎🦑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-...

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

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The Ocean Is Live. Tune In.

A research ship is exploring the deep Pacific. You can watch from home.

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🌎🦑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...

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What Trump’s Ballroom Could Mean for Environmental Lawsuits

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?

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🌎🦑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-...

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Louisiana: Look Before You Launch

SpaceX wants to build the world’s largest spaceport on Louisiana’s coast. Louisiana should make sure it’s done right.

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🦑🌏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-...

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A Phantom Tollbooth in the Strait of Hormuz?

Four things to know about the Law of the Sea—and whether Iran and Oman can charge ships for passage

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Center for Progressive Reform @progressivereform.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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...

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Opinion | Republicans ignore U.S. pollution and blow smoke about Canada's

Jarvis DeBerry: Trump demands Canada show more concern for American air quality than he does

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Politicizing a branch of the military is dangerous.

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🦑🌎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...

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Inside the Clearwater Free Speech Controversy

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.

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

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

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🦑🌏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.”

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

🦑🌎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.

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

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

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Trump is obsessed with deep sea mining. We need to pay attention.

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🌏🦑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...

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El Niño Is Coming: 4 Things You Should Know

Can you say "sobrecargado"?

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🦑🌎 ‘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/...

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‘Severe’ stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns

Global effort needed to limit effects of pollution, industrial fishing and climate crisis, World Ocean Assessment says

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🦑🌎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

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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

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Rob Verchick (@robverchick)

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Sandy Rosenthal @sandytalks.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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...

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Voices for a Blue Tomorrow: Levee Activist Sandy Rosenthal on Environmental Awakenings, Green Infrastructure, and Seasonal Housing for Purple Martins

An interview that will leave you inspired!

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🦑🌏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

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A Pause for Poetry

What is your place in the family of things?

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I think we start with the species that so many other species depend on.

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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

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Cocaine Fish

Our bad habits are corrupting the sea life.

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🦑🌎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.

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Help protect the most important fish you've never heard of.

Everyone depends on menhaden—dolphins, whales, game fish, and us.

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🦑🌎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!

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Interior recombines BOEM, BSSE into MMA

The U.S. Department of the Interior said April 3 that it is combining functions of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement into the Marine Minerals...

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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.

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Actually, Hawai'i. But, yes, CA has very high electricity rates. Much of that, I think comes from the passing on of infrastructure-upgrade costs in response to wildfire. Not gonna defend PG&E. System is definitely broken.

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🌏🦑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.

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Ocean in the Crosshairs

How Wartime Politics Could Accelerate Offshore Drilling and Deep-Seabed Mining

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Rob Verchick @robverchick.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🦑🌎Trump’s God Squad meets tomorrow to determine the fate of the extremely endangered Rice’s whale (and other species too). Tune in and speak up. It makes a difference. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Trump v. Rice's Whale

Will the "God Squad" snuff out a species?

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