Media Coverage

September 21, 2009 Environment News Service: White House Proposes National Ocean Council to Chart Course for Ocean Health The White House is offering for public comment a new plan to better govern and protect the nation’s ocean waters, coasts and the Great Lakes. Under the plan, a new interagency National Ocean Council would be created […]

Obama Administration Officials Release Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force Interim Report (September 17, 2009)

August 18, 2005 Environmental Defense Fund: White House Ocean Policy in the Doldrums: Bold Vision and Strong Action Needed to Secure Ocean Protections The oceans need a champion. But despite clarion calls for decisive action to save our seas, President Bush failed to mention the word oceans once in his February 2005 State of the