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.
We invite members of the press to reach out to Oceana’s media contacts for information and questions.
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…
On Saturday, August 22, 400 people came out to Laguna Beach for The SeaChange Summer Party. The event raised funds for leading ocean conservation group Oceana, and honored actress Glenn…
In a long awaited decision, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) published a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) today, putting the fate of rare deep sea corals off the…
