Eve Zuckoff

Massachusetts

Climate Change Reporter at WCAI-FM (Woods Hole, MA)

Climate/environment reporter • Covering Cape Cod + MA coast and islands for @WCAI_npr and @GBHNews • Occasionally popping by X, active on Instagram @evezuckoff

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Eliminate the Marine Mammal Commission? Trump budget proposes to do that

6 days ago | wshu.org | Eve Zuckoff

The Trump Administration is taking aim at an agency that protects marine mammals from harm, prompting local experts to worry. The Marine Mammal Commission was created more than 50 years ago to ensure the Marine Mammal Protection Act is followed and to provide independent, science-based oversight of federal activities that affect whales, dolphins, seals, and more. Frances Gulland, Commission Chair, released a public letter decrying the effort.
Eliminate the Marine Mammal Commission? Trump budget proposes to do that

6 days ago | ctpublic.org | Eve Zuckoff

Published May 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM EDT The Trump Administration is taking aim at an agency that protects marine mammals from harm, prompting local experts to worry. The Marine Mammal Commission was created more than 50 years ago to ensure the Marine Mammal Protection Act is followed and to provide independent, science-based oversight of federal activities that affect whales, dolphins, seals, and more. Frances Gulland, Commission Chair, released a public letter decrying the effort.
Eliminate the Marine Mammal Commission? Trump budget proposes to do that

1 week ago | nepm.org | Eve Zuckoff

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tim Cole/NOAA Fisheries, NEFSC Two North Atlantic right whales photographed by the NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Center aerial survey team in May 2016. The Trump Administration is taking aim at an agency that protects marine mammals from harm, prompting local experts to worry.
Eliminate the Marine Mammal Commission? Trump budget proposes to do that

1 week ago | nhpr.org | Eve Zuckoff

The Trump Administration is taking aim at an agency that protects marine mammals from harm, prompting local experts to worry. The Marine Mammal Commission was created more than 50 years ago to ensure the Marine Mammal Protection Act is followed and to provide independent, science-based oversight of federal activities that affect whales, dolphins, seals, and more. Frances Gulland, Commission Chair, released a public letter decrying the effort.
Eliminate the Marine Mammal Commission? Trump budget proposes to do that

1 week ago | mainepublic.org | Eve Zuckoff

The Trump Administration is taking aim at an agency that protects marine mammals from harm, prompting local experts to worry. The Marine Mammal Commission was created more than 50 years ago to ensure the Marine Mammal Protection Act is followed and to provide independent, science-based oversight of federal activities that affect whales, dolphins, seals, and more. Frances Gulland, Commission Chair, released a public letter decrying the effort.
Pocasset Mental Health Center may get financial boost after closure fears

1 week ago | capeandislands.org | Eve Zuckoff

After facing sudden closure this winter, the Pocasset Mental Health Center could soon open up to more patients. An amendment in the state budget from Falmouth Representative David Viera proposes $50,000 to convert office space at the 16 bed facility into two additional beds. The rooms are currently used as office space and would need to be furnished and converted into safer spaces. In February, Gov. Maura Healey proposed cutting mental health case workers and shuttering the Center for underuse.
More than a quarter of staff gone at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center

1 week ago | nhpr.org | Gilda Geist |Eve Zuckoff

The Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)—a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with an office in Woods Hole—has seen a 27 percent reduction in staff since President Donald Trump took office, according to current and former NOAA employees, who asked not to be named in this story for fear of retaliation. In addition to the lab in Woods Hole, the NEFSC has four other offices—one each in Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maine.
Fighting climate change: WHOI wins EPA approval to experiment with carbon storage off Provincetown

2 weeks ago | nhpr.org | Eve Zuckoff

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signed off on a long-planned experiment that aims to fight climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in the ocean for thousands of years. It took two years — and two public comment periods — for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to earn the permit for the LOC-NESS project that’s set to take place this summer, 60 miles northeast of Provincetown.
Fighting climate change: WHOI wins EPA approval to experiment with carbon storage off Provincetown

3 weeks ago | capeandislands.org | Eve Zuckoff

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signed off on a long-planned experiment that aims to fight climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in the ocean for thousands of years. It took two years — and two public comment periods — for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to earn the permit for the LOC-NESS project that’s set to take place this summer, 60 miles northeast of Provincetown.
Cape Cod lobsterman turned NOAA gear expert caught in federal layoffs

3 weeks ago | wgbh.org | Eve Zuckoff

April 22, 2025 Rob Martin doesn’t have the typical remote work setup. “Come on the boat. Just don’t trip on the rope,” he warns visitors. From his perch aboard the Resolve, his fishing boat that’s docked at Sandwich Marina, Martin, 60, has consulted with environmental police, advised policymakers, and, most meaningfully to him, helped fellow commercial lobstermen set up whale-safe fishing gear .