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Trump commits U.S. to expanding efforts to clean up ocean litter
Trump commits U.S. to expanding efforts to clean up ocean litter
Brandi Buchman
Brandi BuchmanPublished: October 12, 2018
Cumulus clouds over the Atlantic Ocean. (Photo by Tiago Fioreze via Wikipedia Commons)
WASHINGTON (CN) – President Donald Trump signed legislation Thursday committing the United States to expand efforts to clean up nearly 8 million metric tons of litter polluting the world’s oceans.
Known as the Save Our Seas Act, the bill received unanimous bipartisan support as it passed through the House and Senate this July before landing on Trump’s desk for a signature Thursday morning.
During the signing in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said “many countries of the world, [including] China, Japan; many, many countries” have contribute to the spread of waste in the oceans.
“This debris not only hurts marine life, but fisherman and coastal economies,” Trump said. “I’ve seen pictures recently where there’s vast, tremendous, [an] unthinkable amount of garbage [that] is floating right into our coast, in particular along the west coast and we’re charged with removing it.”
He called this “a very unfair situation.”
According to research compiled by the Ocean Conservancy, more than half of the estimated 8 million tons of plastic and other debris inundating oceans comes from “a handful of developing countries in southeast Asia, where economic growth has outpaced waste management systems.”
The legislation reauthorizes the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration’s marine debris program through 2022 and gives the agency $10 million per year to tackle the debris clogging oceans both near and far from the United States.
According to the bill, NOAA will work in tandem with other organizations to address the sources of debris while the State Department will actively promote “international action” addressing marine litter.
The State Department did not immediately return request for comment Thursday.
In a change from earlier iterations of the bill, NOAA is also now allowed to distribute funds directly, where appropriate, to organizations who want to assist in clean-up efforts.
“This work has happened for years and decades,” Trump said. “Previous administrations did absolutely nothing to take on foreign countries responsible.”
Originally sponsored by Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Arkansas, the Save Our Seas Act also directs the president to “support funding for research and development of bio-based and other alternatives or environmentally feasible improvements to materials that reduce municipal solid waste.”
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is also ordered to incorporate the impact of marine debris in “relevant future trade agreements.”
This particular effort is already underway, the president told reporters gathered in the Oval Office.
The new United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement features commitments by all parties to cooperate on land and sea-based management plans aimed at improving waste reduction, Trump said.
“The U.S. has some of the most beautiful beaches and oceans in the world. The coastlines are incredible. I will do everything I can to stop other nations from making our oceans into their landfills,” he said.
Kevin Allexon, senior manager of government relations at the Ocean Conservancy told Courthouse News Thursday that the bill is a “modest but critical tool in the fight against ocean trash.”
“By reauthorizing the NOAA’S marine debris program, the law supports research on and solutions to this growing problem. By urging the State Department to engage their counterparts around the world, [it] recognizes the global nature of marine debris, which spares no country or coastline,” he said. “We are grateful for the bipartisan effort here — another reminder that our ocean is for everyone to enjoy and care for.”
October 12, 2018
WASHINGTON (CN) – President Donald Trump signed legislation Thursday committing the United States to expand efforts to clean up nearly 8 million metric tons of litter polluting the world’s oceans.
Known as the
Save Our Seas Act, the bill received unanimous bipartisan support as it passed through the House and Senate this July before landing on Trump’s desk for a signature Thursday morning.
During the signing in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said “many countries of the world, [including] China, Japan; many, many countries” have contribute to the spread of waste in the oceans.
President Donald Trump signed legislation Thursday committing the United States to expand efforts to clean up nearly 8 million metric tons of litter polluting the world’s oceans.
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President Donald Trump signs the Save Our Seas Act targeting plastic marine waste in an Oct. 11 ceremony at the White House.
"This important bipartisan legislation reinvigorates marine debris programs and includes language recognizing the need to advance and deploy waste management, particularly in emerging economies," Steve Russell, vice president of ACC's plastics division, said in a statement.
The law funds the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine Debris Program through 2022 and gives the head of NOAA authority to declare severe marine debris events and authorize funds for cleanup. States can also request that declaration.
According to a statement from a bipartisan group of senators who sponsored the bill and said it was prompted by plastic waste worries, the law supports research into improved waste management and new materials that reduce marine debris, and it supports stronger international efforts.
Specifically, it encourages the federal government to "engage with leaders of nations responsible for the majority of marine debris," and it supports using trade agreements to urge other countries to improve waste management.
The lead Republican co-sponsor, Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan, highlighted those international efforts in a statement.
"This bill will serve to strengthen the federal response capabilities to marine debris disasters, combat land-based marine debris resources, and encourage interagency coordination in stemming the tide of ocean trash and importantly encourage the Trump administration to pursue international agreements with regard to this challenge," Sullivan said. "The prevalence of marine debris on our shores is a chronic issue."
While Trump urged other nations to do more, the U.S. government is one of two members of the G7 economic bloc that did not sign the G7's Plastics Charter on marine waste earlier this year, although the U.S. has participated in subsequent meetings on the charter.
Trump said the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to replace NAFTA is the first U.S. trade agreement that includes commitments from the parties to address land- and sea-based pollution and improve waste management and said it would be in other trade pacts.
At the White House event, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., urged Trump to include similar language in a trade agreement being negotiated with the Philippines.
"Everyone from scientists to journalists to fishermen to coastal industries and international corporations are sounding the alarm about plastic trash and other marine debris polluting our oceans," said Whitehouse, who is co-chair of the Senate Oceans Caucus. "It's time to protect our precious marine ecosystems and coastal economies from this threat."
In his comments, the president criticized other countries for putting waste into the oceans.
"This dumping has happened for years and even for decades," Trump said. "Previous administrations did absolutely nothing to take on the foreign countries responsible. We've already notified most of them, and we've notified them very strongly."
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