Earlier today, the House Resources Committee endorsed and moved to the floor of the House of Representatives, legislation which significantly weakens current legal protections for American’s ocean fish. Entitled innocuously,…
Today, for the first time, beach goers will be able to find out easily whether their favorite ocean beach is clean enough for swimming or closed because of water pollution….
Today, the House Resources Committee began consideration of a bill, H.R. 4749, introduced by Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), which would eviscerate existing requirements of the nation’s primary fisheries conservation law,…
With little more than 2 months left until the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), the final Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) meeting could turn out to be a Bali…
Oceana, a new international ocean protection group, today submitted the first installment of 60,000 public comments, the largest number ever delivered on an ocean related matter, to the National Marine…
Today, the Democracy Online Project of The George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management awarded the Golden Dot Award for Civic Excellence in Online Issue Advocacy to Oceana.org, the…
Oceana, a new international ocean protection group, today called on Congress to fix a faulty legislative proposal submitted by President Bush to enforce fully the provisions of the Stockholm Convention…
