On November 20th, the Department of the Interior released President Trump’s latest offshore drilling plan, which would open up to 34 potential lease sales across more than 1.27 billion acres…
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Don't Scapegoat Sea Lions for Human-caused Salmon Declines At the Salmon Protection And Watershed Network (SPAWN), we have spent decades doing the hard, unglamorous work of saving salmon—restoring streams, protecting...
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The Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) have announced a new proposed “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule that dramatically restricts which…
The United States is the world’s largest importer of seafood, bringing in more than $25 billion worth of products each year from over 130 countries. Yet for decades, the U.S. has failed to…
For Immediate Release: November 10, 2025 Media Contacts: Joanie Steinhaus, Turtle Island Restoration Network, joanie@seaturtles.org / (512) 417-7741 Dan Lê, San Antonio Bay Waterkeeper, dan@sanantoniobaywaterkeeper.org / (281) 891-3550 Texas Hosts…
Photo of the Flower Gardens Bank by Greg McFall. Beneath the surface of our nation’s waters lies a living network of stories, species and heritage – all safeguarded by America’s…
Photo by NOAA. Leatherbacks swim through international waters on their long migrations, where they are threatened by industrial fishing activities. Turtle Island Restoration Network has been working for decades to…
Rendering of Commonwealth LNG, source: Commonwealth LNG. In a major win for environmental justice and coastal protection, a Louisiana state court has vacated the coastal use permit for the proposed…
California’s coastal waters may soon be free of two of the most destructive fishing methods ever deployed… set gillnets and drift gillnets, thanks to new laws that will finally phase…