The Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Council on Environmental Quality announced an invitation to the public to help shape a new Ocean Justice Strategy that will guide ocean justice activities across the Federal government.

Front-line advocates of the America the Beautiful for All Coalition recently came to Washington, D.C., to meet with elected officials to support a just and equitable implementation of President Joe Biden’s “America the Beautiful” initiative.

NOAA releases plans to build climate resilience and support coastal communities with Inflation Reduction Act funds

This toolkit provides an overview of some major federal designations of lands and waters in the U.S. and its territories that can help protect the environmental, cultural, and economic resources within and around them.

A recent analysis found nearly zero commercial fishing recently in an area in the Pacific Ocean set to become a marine sanctuary, sparking another disagreement on data between sanctuary advocates and opponents.

U.S. tuna fleets almost never access the far-flung reaches of the Pacific that would soon be closed to commercial fishing under a federal marine sanctuary proposal, according to a new study.

Viewed by the Chumash people as their ancestral home, the Native American tribe is behind the first Indigenous-led initiative to protect the ocean and repair its damaged ecosystem

A diverse coalition of Pacific Islanders has proposed creating a cultural, scientific, and historically grounded National Marine Sanctuary around the Pacific Remote Islands.

The national marine sanctuary designation process for the Pacific Remote Islands is currently underway. If a sanctuary is designated, it could bar industrial extraction, such as deep-sea mining, whose commercial interests have already targeted this area as a prime fit for its catastrophic practices.

Surfrider is joining the Northern Chumash Tribe in urging NOAA to designate a new national marine sanctuary off the central coast of California.

Today, NOAA announced it is starting the process to potentially designate a new national marine sanctuary in the Pacific Remote Islands area, as directed by President Biden and affirmed by the Department of Commerce on March 24, 2023.

The Healthy Ocean Coalition leadership team welcomes anyone based in Georgia, Northern Florida, and Southern South Carolina to register for the 14th cohort of the Healthy Ocean Advocacy Academy!

To aid community support work, Ocean Equity Collective has created a language guide to help individuals, organizations, and corporations better communicate with communities and decolonize their language.

Youth leadership is critical to advancing meaningful ocean protection and building the momentum needed to achieve the goal of protecting 30% of United States’ waters by 2030 as outlined in the America the Beautiful vision.

You are invited to apply to join the EarthEcho Youth Leadership Council (YLC) - a team of young environmental leaders, ages 15-22, selected annually through a competitive application process

In February at the International Marine Protected Areas Congress the Center for American Progress and the National Ocean Protection Coalition hosted a storytelling event on Indigenous-led conservation approaches for ocean protection in the U.S.

In waters not far off the U.S. coast, there are 15 Marine Sanctuaries, stunning marine environments where one might encounter the beauty and diversity of God’s creation.

The Commerce Department directed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to initiate a process to consider designating all U.S. waters around the Pacific Remote Islands as a national marine sanctuary.