Ocean Defense

10/05/2020

Yes! We stopped seismic blasting (at least in 2020 and hopefully forever). Music to all our ears.

STOP SEISMIC BLASTING An Activist Song by Emily Springsteen (C) 2020 Please Share if You Care! Oil companies search for oil beneath the sea floor using seism...

10/01/2020

VICTORY! Seismic airgun blasting cannot move forward in the Atlantic:

Delay could last several years (Oceana) Aside from the recent news that President Trump has decided to include North Carolina in a moratorium blocking offshore drilling, environmental advocates are…

06/29/2020

Here we are yet again. Our environment is under attack by the Trump administration. We must stand and fight like the many times we have in the past. We can win this battle, we have done it before and we will do it again

Trump administrtion overrules North Carolina, approves offshore seismic testing for oil and gas deposits; sea mammals endangered

04/01/2020

Check out "Plastic Wars" - how the plastic industry mislead the public about recycling for decades.

They never believed it would actually solve the plastic waste problem. Today, it’s estimated that no more than 10 percent of plastic produced has ever been recycled.

03/26/2020

Shame on the plastics industry for exploiting the COVID crisis. Thank you Greenpeace USA John Hocevar Connor Gibson

In a new research brief, Greenpeace USA details the ways the plastics industry is exploiting people’s fears around COVID-19. Through front groups, corporate-funded research, and misrepresentation of scientific studies, the plastics industry is using the COVID-19 emergency to create fear about reus...

03/11/2020

"I'm not aware" was the common response given when...
Nearly 10 years after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, Trump appointee Scott Angelle dodges "Yes or No" questions from Representative Mike Levin about allegedly refuting the expert advice of Bureau officials in favor of recommendations.

01/22/2020

South Carolina making big moves! The Southeast is not for sale to Big Oil!!

South Carolina lawmakers took yet another major step forward in the fight to protect their coast from the Trump administration’s proposal to open nearly all our oceans to offshore drilling. On Jan. 15, a South Carolina Senate subcommittee advanced a bill blocking all infrastructure to facilitate o...

04/29/2019

Department of Interior is struggling to push forward with Trump's ridiculous radical plan to drill for oil, amidst the nation unifying in opposition. We should be free to move on to new conversations, and we will be soon. This plan will be defeated!

Coastal communities have united across party lines to oppose the Trump administration's plans.

01/23/2019

Seismic airgun blasts create one of the loudest manmade sources of noise in the oceans. This can disturb, injure or even kill marine animals. Recent news from the Israeli coast shows the dire impacts that seismic could have on sea turtles.

Workers of Israel's Sea Turtle Rescue Center have rushed to save dozens of injured sea turtles that have washed up along the country's coast.

01/17/2019

The federal government is simultaneously:
(1) citing the in requesting a delay in the testing case
(2) continuing to work on testing permits despite the shutdown

With 800,000 federal employees out of work during the government shutdown, the Trump administration has called back a handful of Bureau of Ocean Energy Management workers — with pay —