Press Releases
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Today the U.S. House Resources Committee led by Rep. Pombo (R-Calif.) passed a Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act reauthorization bill, H.R. 5018, which retreats from some of... Read More
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Oceana Statement on the Tuna/Mercury Decision
Jacqueline Savitz, Seafood Contamination Campaign Director for the international ocean conservation group Oceana, which is campaigning to get FDA advice posted in grocery stores nationwide, issued the following... Read More
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Conservation Groups to Congress: Don’t Kill the Dolphin Deadline
Oceana and 21 other conservation groups today asked the U.S. Congress to protect the Dolphin Deadline, a key requirement that seeks to reduce the needless killing of dolphins,... Read More
Thursday, October 1, 2009
10,000 Marine Mammals Dead by Missing the Dolphine Deadline
Approximately 10,000 dolphins, whales, and other marine mammals could have been saved in the last five years if the federal government had fulfilled its responsibilities under the Marine... Read More
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Safeway Steps Up Efforts to Prevent Mercury Exposure
Oceana congratulated Safeway today on the supermarket chain’s commitment to post mercury advisory signs nationally at its stores’ seafood counters. Oceana’s Stop Seafood Contamination Campaign, launched in January... Read More
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Oceana Lauds Obama Administration’s Commitment to Healthy Oceans
Oceana, an international ocean conservation group based in Washington, D.C., reacted today to the release of the interim report of the Obama administration’s Ocean Policy Task Force: “Oceans... Read More
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Oceana Air Monitoring Near Ashta Chemicals Chlor-Alkali Plant
Ashta Chemicals, LLC, in Ashtabula, OH, one of four remaining mercury-based chlor-alkali plants in the United States, is the source of mercury measured in air surrounding the plant,... Read More
