The Biden-Harris Administration has expanded critical habitat for endangered Southern Resident orcas along the outer coast of Washington, Oregon and as far south as Point Sur, California. The newly designated … Read more
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve the fiscal year 2022 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies funding bill. The bill includes language restricting the Bureau of Ocean Energy … Read more
Today, Rep. Jared Huffman (CA-02) — chair of the Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee — and Rep. Ed Case (HI-01) introduced legislation to reauthorize … Read more
Today, a diverse group of more than 300 nonprofits, organizations, and businesses sent a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland urging her to direct the National Park Service to … Read more
Today, Oceana released a new report finding that most vessels are exceeding speed limits in areas designed to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, of which only around 360 remain. Oceana analyzed vessel speeds from 2017 to 2020 in speed zones established by the National Oceanic and … Read more
Today Oceana, represented by Earthjustice, sued the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) over the agency’s faulty rebuilding plan that will neither recover the Pacific sardine population nor take into account … Read more
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the Biden administration is advancing the mid-Atlantic’s first commercial offshore wind development off... Read More
