How can we help the right whale avoid extinction?
Commitments from large restaurants and grocery stores to purchase whale-safe lobster will help.
Oceans
Home to diverse wildlife from the smallest krill to the biggest whale, our country’s oceans — and the ecosystems they support — are worth preserving for future generations.
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Statement: President Biden announces new monuments, policies to protect more nature
Statement: House bill doubles down on oil drilling
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Legislation introduced to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale
US House passes bill to expand drilling
The facts on wind turbines, whales and New Jersey’s future
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New Life for the Ocean
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Progress Report: President Biden’s First Year
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Offshore drilling and climate action don’t mix
As it drafts a new plan to fight global warming, the Biden administration should end offshore drilling leasing.
Comment period to protect New Jersey’s “Grand Canyon” closes
Thousands weighed in to tell the Biden Adminstration to protect Hudson Canyon
Statement: Biden administration’s drilling proposal would put U.S. over a barrel
"By proposing as many as 11 new offshore drilling lease sales, President Biden is taking us down the same old path toward more spills and a warmer climate. This plan would lock in long-term risks that, with renewable energy on the rise, we increasingly don’t need."
Deep-water coral bank threatened
Florida’s deep coral reef, protected in ‘80s, faces prospect of destructive shrimp trawling once again
New sanctuary would protect the largest canyon along the Atlantic coast
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced it is taking the first step to designate the Hudson Canyon National Marine Sanctuary. Hudson Canyon is the largest of the more than 70 undersea canyons that line the North Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf, and is home to deep sea corals, bluefin tunas, sperm whales, sea turtles and more.