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		<title>US ocean regulator faces criticism over changes to right whale protection rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] PORTLAND, Maine &#8212; The U.S.&#8217;s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing whales, prompting criticism from environmental groups who cite the recent death of an endangered whale. The rules protect the North Atlantic right whale, which numbers less than 400 and lives off the East Coast. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Companies offer $279 million for Gulf of Mexico drilling rights in first of 30 planned oil sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] WASHINGTON &#8212; Oil companies offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned for the region in coming years under Republican efforts to ramp up U.S. fossil fuel production. The sale came after President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration recently announced plans to allow new [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Contributor: It&#8217;s time to save the whales again</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Ramos]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 23:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] Diving in a kelp forest in Monterey Bay recently, I watched a tubby 200-pound harbor seal follow a fellow diver, nibbling on his flippers. The diver, a graduate student, was using sponges to collect DNA samples from the ocean floor. Curious seals, he told me, can be a nuisance. When he bags his sponges [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New gear could keep California crab fishermen on the water longer, and whales safe</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Ramos]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale entanglements off the West Coast, California crabbers are experimenting with a new fishing method that allows them to stay on the water longer while keeping the marine mammals safe. The state has been running a pilot program since 2023 to try out [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Snoopy, whale’s tail, firefighters — special license plates can be replaced</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Ramos]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] Q: Hi Honk: I just read your column about the old &#8217;84 Olympic plate and how those few folks who still have them can continue to renew them, but they cannot get them replaced if damaged. I was wondering if the same goes for any vanity plate that the DMV discontinues? For instance, I have a Snoopy plate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Washed-up carcass of endangered fin whale near Alaska&#8217;s largest city attracts crowds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] ANCHORAGE, Alaska &#8212; An endangered fin whale that washed up near a coastal trail in Alaska&#8217;s largest city has attracted curious onlookers while biologists seek answers as to what caused the animal&#8217;s death. The carcass found over the weekend near Anchorage was 47 feet (14.3 meters) long — comparable to the width of a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Protecting whales from ship strikes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tony Ramos]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[ad_1] In the summer of 2022, I was walking on the beach at Half Moon Bay in California, when I saw the strangest thing approaching on the waves. When it struck the shore and deflated, I knew: it was a dead whale. But it wasn&#8217;t just any whale. It was Fran. &#8220;I knew this whale, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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