[Coral-List] Reef Safe Bill In Hawaii

Matt Nolan mpnolan at lbl.gov
Tue Apr 11 16:50:41 EDT 2017


National Marine Sanctuaries Act
SEC. 306. [16 U.S.C. 1436] PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES
It is unlawful for any person to—
(1)
destroy, cause the loss of, or injure any sanctuary resource managed
under law or
regulations for that sanctuary;



So the real problem must be you don't have (court of law presentable)
proof these chemicals are harmful to marine sanctuaty resources.


If you think you do, you need to find a volunteer willing to be
arrested in a jurisdiction where the judge may be sympathetic to your
cause
and find someone to do the arrest and file the charges and then leave
nothing to chance. Trust no one.

Has anyone tried this approach previously?


On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Charles Delbeek
<cdelbeek at calacademy.org> wrote:
>> Our funding applications to study oxybenzone effects on the reefs in
> Hawaii
>> has been denied by NOAA as *they are focused on climate change*.
>
> Who knows how much longer that will be given the current Administration?
>
>
> *J. Charles Delbeek, M.Sc.*
>
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Be Reef Safe <bereefsafe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, that would be an option, although far-fetched from what I can tell
>> with this legislature.  Currently the bill is in conference negotiation so
>> maybe we should push that idea as it currently has no funding for the
>> study, effectively killing the effort.
>>
>> We want to at least make our efforts a model for other's to follow. We hope
>> that other places with coral reefs in their jurisdiction will see how
>> popular this is with the public and do something proactively to save their
>> corals from these chemicals.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 2:17 PM Matt Nolan <mpnolan at lbl.gov> wrote:
>>
>> > If it has to be a study, then make it an expensive one that is paid
>> > for with a tax on products made with the chemicals of interest,
>> > and since you'll be taxing all product sold, maybe the opposition to
>> > the bill will consider non-use in certain areas the compromise.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Be Reef Safe <bereefsafe at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > Aloha,
>> > >
>> > > We have been working hard in Hawaii to improve our reefs and
>> sponsoring a
>> > > reef-safe sunscreen bill which has been watered down into a study, that
>> > > probably won't be funded.
>> > >
>> > > Our funding applications to study oxybenzone effects on the reefs in
>> > Hawaii
>> > > has been denied by NOAA as they are focused on climate change.
>> > >
>> > > We need support to pressure our lawmakers to help us remove dangerous
>> > > chemicals from products that are harming the reefs. We are so close to
>> > > making it happen.
>> > >
>> > > The latest wording of the bill prior has been to remove the "ban" and
>> > > replace it with a study.
>> > >
>> > http://www.bereefsafe.com/hawaii-bill-relating-
>> preserving-coral-reefs-sb1150/
>> > >
>> > > Dan
>> > >
>> > > http://www.bereefsafe.com
>> > > http://www.haereticus-lab.org/donations-fundraising/
>> > > https://bantoxicsunscreens.com/
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