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... 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... Read More
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the Biden administration is advancing the mid-Atlantic’s first commercial offshore wind development off Virginia’s coast at a press conference today in... Read More
This week, Gov. Henry McMaster signed the state’s annual budget into law, which is effective as of July 1, 2021. The final budget continues the state’s ban on... Read More
California Governor Newsom has signed the 2021-2022 budget, which includes $1.3 million for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to complete the state’s transition away from deadly... Read More
Today, NOAA Fisheries issued a final rule to protect over 25,000 square miles of deep-sea coral habitat in Georges Bank and the Gulf of Maine from destructive fishing... Read More
Yesterday, a federal judge blocked President Biden’s offshore oil and gas leasing pause that was issued in January. In response, Oceana released the following statement from campaign director... Read More
