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 statement in…
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, whales, manatees…
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 Mammal Protection…
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 2005, has…
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 are a…
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, yet the…
The federal government took its final step late yesterday to protect sensitive deepwater canyons that lie along the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to Virginia. Specifically, the National Marine Fisheries Service…
