Cuts to science, environmental and safety agencies are a rejection of hard-won knowledge gained from studying the disaster that occurred 15 years ago https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/20/deepwater-horizon-trump-administration-attacks-on-science
US weather forecasts save lives and money. Trump’s cuts put us all at risk
Having served as the deputy administrator of Noaa and before that its general counsel, I have witnessed first-hand the indispensable role this agency plays. The Trump administration’s proposed draconian, reckless and, in many cases, unlawful budget and personnel cuts to the agency should alarm us all.
These cuts will do little to achieve their stated goal of reducing the size and cost of government. They instead jeopardize the safety, economic prosperity and overall wellbeing of our nation.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/13/noaa-cuts-weather-hurricanes
Smithsonian Institution Lecture: The Future of Exploration, May 6, 2024 6:45pm
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100 Jefferson Dr SW
Metro: Smithsonian (Mall exit)
https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/future-of-exploration?utm_source=RAad&utm_medium=OAtsa&utm_content=mwX&utm_campaign=MayWe
The Future of Exploration presentation at Politics and Prose, November 14, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/live/q-0kt5InVk4?si=JszKitrJS79u9hVx
The Future of Exploration presentation at The Explorers Club, NY November 1, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/live/QhMMWCZ0e1c?si=EmRS5zglcQS7cPFu
The Future of Exploration, The Explorers Journal, Winter 2023
https://www.explorers.org/journals/the-future-of-exploration/
Lost Cities presentation at Warren County Public Library
https://fb.watch/2RHLzDgDck/
We still don’t know the full impacts of the BP oil spill, 10 years later
The spill drove a push in science and some changes in regulations, but the dangers of offshore drilling remain.
Ten Years After Deepwater Horizon, U.S. Is Still Vulnerable to Catastrophic Spills
Members of the bipartisan commission created to investigate the spill say Congress and the Trump administration have failed to take safety seriously.
OIL AND GAS: 'We are much less safe.' 4 lessons from Deepwater Horizon
But ahead of Monday's 10-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, some commissioners and experts say the United States is not prepared for what could be next.
"Are we safer today than we were 10 years ago? The answer would be 'no,'" said Terry Garcia, one of the commissioners and a former assistant secretary of Commerce for oceans and atmosphere at NOAA. "I think you could even argue we are much less safe and the conditions for a similar occurrence or of even greater magnitude is possible."