Oil and Orcas Don't Mix
Today, only 76 Southern Resident orcas swim the waters off the Pacific Northwest shoreline. If Secretary Ryan Zinke and the Trump Administration succeed in the...
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All I want for the Holidays: Protection for the Gulf's Whale
Today, on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council, I wrote the National Marine Fisheries Service to let them know that if they didn’t take final actio...
Washington State Fights for Salmon and Whales
The Governor of Washington State stepped up his leadership today in the race to save our Southern Resident killer whales. To quote Bon Jovi, these beloved...
Thankful for Whales, Not Congress
The SECURE American Energy Act would gut important marine mammal protections and pave the way for more industrial activity in the waters that some of our most t...
New Study: North Atlantic Right Whales In Dangerous Decline
A new study published in the journal Ecology and Evolution confirms that the North Atlantic right whale—one of the world’s most endangered whales—has reversed...
New Study Offers Way Out of Hot Water & Salmon Crisis
The Pacific Northwest’s salmon are in big, hot trouble. Billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent on a wild range of government efforts to save these sacre...