Our national marine sanctuary system covers hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean and Great Lakes waters and contains areas rich with marine life and cultural history. The National Marine Sanctuaries Act was designed to protect and restore these...
The Biden Administration has proposed a new federal offshore leasing program that could include leasing in as many as eleven areas in the Gulf of Mexico and Cook Inlet, Alaska and would enable continued development on the Outer Continental Shelf...
Legal petition to establish a mandatory 10-knot limit and other vessel-related mitigation measure for vessel traffic within the core habitat of the Gulf of Mexico whale.
On April 6, 2020, NRDC submitted a report to the National Marine Fisheries Service that summarizes and synthesizes the best available data on the Gulf of Mexico whale’s habitat use.
Comments submitted to the National Marine Fisheries Service, urging it to withdraw the proposed authorizations of five industrial seismic surveys off the east coast of the United States. The proposed authorizations fail to meet the standards prescribed by the Marine...
NRDC Briefs and Comments regarding Pebble Mine / Bristol Bay, 2012-2014. Brief on Behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Support of Petitions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Action Regarding the Proposed Pebble Mine Under Section 404(c)...
This report, prepared by a coalition of national environmental and conservation organizations, illustrates how indiscriminate spending cuts will adversely affect our nation’s ability to respond to environmental challenges of a changing climate, develop our clean energy resources, and sustain our...
Opinion and court order, issued by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, granting in part a motion by NRDC and other plaintiffs for a preliminary injunction limiting the U.S. Navy's peacetime use of low frequency sonar...
