Michael Bastasch
The Daily Caller
12/11/2013
Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has introduced a bill that would give funds to environmental groups to study and restore U.S. oceans and coastlines. A major beneficiary of the law could be an environmental group with ties to Whitehouse’s wife.
In April, Whitehouse reintroduced the National Endowment for the Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes Act, which would create a grant program for states, environmental groups and universities to study and restore oceans and coastlines across the country…
…The Whitehouse bill would fund non-profit groups and governments that engage in what is called “Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning.” The Conservancy focuses on marine spatial planning.
The Conservancy has hired Whitehouse’s wife Sandra [Thornton] Whitehouse to work on the issue as an independent contractor in the past.
According to the group’s 990 forms for 2011, Sandra Whitehouse was paid $182,000 to work on “Marine Spatial Planning.”…
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Related: From June 2012: Dem senator: Humans causing climate change, saying otherwise is ‘bogus’
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