Oceana press releases share updates on our campaigns and mission to protect and restore the world’s oceans. They include explanations of the issues that our oceans face, our work to solve those issues, and ways that you can advocate for ocean protection and restoration.
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The California legislature has sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger three bills that would give that state the nation’s tightest controls over cruise ship sewage dumping in coastal waters, eclipsing Alaska, the…
Two major bills that prohibit the discharge of sewage and wastewater in California’s coastal waters took another crucial step toward becoming law, passing through the state Senate Appropriations Committee. International…
A University of British Columbia fisheries scientist, Dr. Steven Martell, published an independent assessment and determined that the hake fishery was undergoing overfishing in 2007 and 2008. An independent adjudicator…
Two major bills that prohibit the discharge of sewage and wastewater in California’s coastal waters took another crucial step toward becoming law, passing through the state Senate Appropriations Committee. International…
On the heels of yesterday’s final public hearing from the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy (USCOP), international ocean advocacy group Oceana today joined Environment California at a press conference in…
Oceana today praised the introduction of a major bill in the U.S. Congress that would fundamentally restructure ocean management and protection. Oceana called the bipartisan legislation – along with a…
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an appropriations bill (H.R. 4754) that significantly reduces funding for key ocean and coastal protection activities. The bill cuts the National Oceanic and…
