On November 15, Oceana, other environmental groups, and frontline communities hosted a virtual event to urge President Biden to uphold his campaign commitment and stop the expansion of dirty and dangerous offshore drilling by finalizing a five-year plan with #NoNewLeases. Oceana climate and energy campaign director Diane Hoskins moderated the panel discussion where speakers urged … Read more
Healthy and abundant oceans provide food, recreation, and livelihoods for people around the world. The ocean is home to over 190,000 known kinds of fish, sharks, whales, sea turtles, corals, sponges, sea grasses, and many other unique living things.1 Protecting this marine life from overfishing, pollution, habitat destruction, and climate change is key to creating … Read more
Every year, the approximately 340 remaining critically endangered North Atlantic right whales swim from Florida to eastern Canada, facing a wide range of threats. These whales risk entanglement in fishing gear and being struck by boats. More than 50 right whales are entangled each year and more than 80% have signs of being entangled each … Read more
It’s National Seafood Month! For the month of October, we celebrate seafood. Why? Because it’s good for you, good for the economy, and good for the world. In the U.S. alone, the fishing industry provides nearly 2 million jobs and over $250 billion to the economy. But seafood can be problematic when it’s illegally caught, … Read more
Last week, more than 100 scientists sent a letter to President Biden and Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland calling for an end to new leasing for offshore drilling, citing concerns over greenhouse gas emissions, risks of oil spills, and chronic local pollution. The letter came in response to the Biden-Harris administration’s proposal for … Read more
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, otherwise known as ‘IUU fishing’, is a major threat to our oceans. It depletes fish populations, damages marine ecosystems, and puts the people that catch and eat seafood at risk. Additionally, IUU fishing costs the global economy $26 billion to $50 billion every year, jeopardizing the livelihoods of fishers and … Read more
On June 8, 2022, World Oceans Day, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland made a historic move and issued a Secretarial Order, which will phase out the procurement, sale, and distribution of single-use plastic products and packaging across the entire Interior Department by 2032. This order covers all 423 units in the National Park … Read more
You might be wondering, “How can an international trade agreement protect whales?” The short answer is the current trade agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada not only dictates how trade happens between the countries, but also requires the three governments to uphold and effectively enforce their own environmental laws, which includes laws to … Read more
On May 21, 2022, people across the country gathered in-person for the first time since 2019 at their local beaches for Hands Across the Sand where they joined together to symbolically “draw a line in the sand,” opposing efforts to expand offshore drilling. This event has been an annual gathering since 2010, following the BP … Read more
With Valentine’s Day approaching, I want to highlight a particular relationship that’s gone on for too long: It’s unhealthy, draining, and it gets worse every minute. I’m talking about industry’s relationship with single-use plastic. Like a problematic partner, single-use plastic is everywhere. Its remnants have crept into the ends of the Earth, from the Mariana Trench … Read more
We have already protected nearly 4 million square miles of ocean and innumerable sea life - but there is still more to be done.
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