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• Federal Land Sales Are Assailed as Giveaway

  • In a practice characterized by critics as a fire-sale giveaway, the Interior Department is disposing of Federal lands in the West worth many mil...

• Untrammeled, Wilderness Character, and the Challenges of Wilderness Preservation

  • This article first appeared in the fall/winter 2001-2002 issue of Wild Earth, and is used with the permission of the author.

• Legally Designated Wilderness: The Essential Habitat for Human-Powered Snow Sports ...and Wildlife

  • In June 2000, the Associated Press reported on a computer mapping study finding that no spot in the United States outside of Alaska is farther t...

• Mountain Biking in Wilderness, Some History

  • This article first appeared in the Spring 2003 issue of Wild Earth and is used with the permission of the author.

• Mechanization in Wilderness Areas: Motors, Motorized Equipment, and Other Forms of Mechanical Transport
  • What are the law, regulations, and precedents-and the history-of excluding motors and "other forms of mechanical transport" from wilderness areas? ...
• America's Living Oceans: Charting a Course for Sea Change

  • America’s oceans are in crisis and the stakes could not be higher.

• People Protecting Wilderness For People: Celebrating 40 Years of the Wilderness Act

  • In reaction to the loss of wilderness was born a uniquely American idea: to deliberately preserve scenic wonders and expanses of wild nature as ...

• State of the Wild 2004

  • 2004 marks the 40th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, a conservation beacon which has been used to build the nation’s National Wilderness Prese...

• Closing and Restoring Roads for Inclusion in a Wilderness Area

  • Precedents Congress has established in choosing to close roads or road spurs for inclusion in a wilderness area, beginning with the first Depart...

• A Mandate To Protect America's Wilderness

  • Surveys of public opinion taken over the past four years by commercial polling firms and the media--and by the federal government itself-—consis...

• Empty Rivers: The Decline of River Herring and the Need to Reduce Mid-water Trawl Bycatch

  • Special report revealing that river herring populations are disappearing and outlining what fishery managers need to do to address bycatch at se...

• Saving Endangered Whales at No Cost

  • The North Atlantic right whale is one of the most critically endangered marine species. 

• Chair’s Summary of the First Pew Whale Symposium

  • More than 60 people from around the world gathered in New York at the United Nations to analyze options for the conservation of whales, specific...

• Background: History of Fuel Economy: One Decade of Innovation, Two Decades of Inaction

  • The Pew Campaign for Fuel Efficiency built on public support for stronger standards by engaging diverse constituencies including military expert...

• Survey: Pickup Truck Owners Strongly Support Increasing Fuel Efficiency Standards

  • U.S. automakers are claiming again that a major increase in fuel economy will mean puny and underpowered pickups. But they already have the tech...

• Experts React to Chairman Rahall's New Mining Reform Effort

  • On the anniversary of the 1872 mining law, the Pew Campaign for Responsible Mining hosted a press briefing to react to a new effort by Rep. Nick...

• Mining Law Threatens Grand Canyon And Other Natural Treasures

  • A modern day land rush is sweeping the West, with mining interests and speculators staking thousands of claims that are encroaching on American ...

• Best Practices for Wilderness Advocates Working with the Business Community

  • This guide is a collection of advice, stories, and examples of how conservation organizations can best engage businesses in their campaigns.

• Chair's Summary of the Second Pew Whale Symposium

  • One hundred participants from 28 different nationalities met at the Headquarters of the United Nations University in Tokyo on 30-January 31, 200...

• Kalabia Floating Marine Conservation Education Program

  • The MV Kalabia (named after the endemic walking shark in Raja Ampat), arrived in Raja Ampat...

• One Page Description: Protecting Whales

  • In order to prevent the continued unfettered killing of whales in the world’s oceans, and to ensure the enforceability of international measures...

• One Page Description: Boreal Forest Campaign

  • Beginning in 2000, the Pew Environment Group launched an international campaign to protect Canada’s boreal forest from destructive development.

• One Page Description: Mining Reform Campaign

  • Modern mining needs a modern law. The Pew Environment Group’s Campaign for Responsible Mining is a national effort, launched in 2006, to take ad...

• A Report of the Second Pew Whale Symposium: A Change in Climate for Whales

  • The Second Pew Whale Symposium, entitled “A change in climate for whales,” took place at UN University Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on 30-31 Ja...

• Audio Briefing: Washington State Leaders Urge Senate Action on 1872 Mining Law

  • On February 7, a broad coalition of state and local officials, conservationists, tribal leaders, and sportsmen called on U.S. Senators Cantwell ...

• One Page Description: Antarctic Conservation

  • Antarctica harbors one of the most extreme yet abundant environments on Earth, home to penguins, seals, whales, fish and seabirds that flourish ...

• One Page Description: Herring Alliance

  • The ocean waters of New England are among the more diverse and productive in the world.

• Audio Briefing: Report Release — New Mining Claims Encroaching on Western Cities and Towns

  • On March 11, the Pew Campaign for Responsible Mining hosted a telebriefing with Environmental Working Group to release a new report that shows a...

• Wilderness: Where Hunting and Fishing are Best

  • "Hunting in the wilderness is of all pastimes the most attractive," wrote Theodore Roosevelt more than 115 years ago.

• Wild... For How Long? Ten Treasures in Trouble

  • "Wild...For How Long? Ten Treasures in Trouble" looks at ten special wild areas from coast to coast, vulnerable today to mining, drilling, roadb...

• Fueling Victory (Spring 2008 Trust Magazine)

  • The Pew Campaign for Fuel Efficiency's success drive helped raise fuel economy standards for the first time in more than three decades.

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• Audio Briefing: Senator Cantwell, western lawmakers urge swift action to reform mining law

  • Western stakeholders and New Mexico officials call on Senate to act now.

• Mining Exploration Conflicts in Canada's Boreal Forest

  • Mining provides vital materials, generates business and employment opportunities in much of the Boreal Forest, and contributes significant wealt...

• Out of Balance: Industrial Fishing and the Threat to Our Ocean

  • This report exposes a threat to New England's coastal waters that has gone largely unnoticed for too long: the mismanagement of our Atlantic her...

• Who’s Eating All the Fish? Debunking the Food Security Rationale for Culling Cetaceans

  • In response to the global fisheries crisis, characterized by falling abundances of resource species, falling catches, increasing habitat destruc...

• Conservation of Australia's Outback Wilderness

  • With the world-wide decimation and degradation of nature, Australia stands out in having huge areas where native vegetation still stands and riv...

• Australia Ranks in Top 5 Most Significant Wild Areas on Earth

  • More than 40 percent of Australia has been found in a new study to qualify as unspoilt wilderness, confirming the country’s status as among the ...

• An Australian Coral Sea Heritage Park

  • An international coalition presented a proposal to the government of Australia to create the world’s largest no-take marine park in the Coral Se...

• Uncertainty Created through Slippage

  • Herring Alliance Director Peter Baker of the Pew Environment Group delivered a presentation on the uncertainty in fishery management created by ...

• Threats to America's Arctic

  • America’s Arctic, located entirely in Alaska, is one of the most beautiful and forbidding places on earth.

• Wild Chronicles: Herring

  • The Pew Environment Group worked in collaboration with National Geographic Television to tell this story.

• Wild Chronicles: Mining

  • The Pew Environment Group worked in collaboration with National Geographic Television to tell this story.

• Questions and Answers Regarding Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing

  • Some questions and answers surrounding the launch of the eftec report.

• Costs of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing in EU Fisheries

  • Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing is a serious threat to fisheries sustainability in EU fisheries, and worldwide.

• Turning the Page: Bringing Whale Conservation into the 21st Century

  • Created in 1949 pursuant to the entry into force of the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), the International Wh...

• Policy Guide for the Pew Whales Commission

  • This Policy Guide was prepared by the Secretariat of the Pew Environment Group, to assist the Chair and the members of the Pew Whales Commission...

• Reforming the U.S. Hardrock Mining Law of 1872: The Price of Inaction

  • The nation’s hardrock mining industry owes an enormous debt to President Ulysses S. Grant.

• One Page Description: Healthy Oceans

  • The increasing industrialization of our oceans threatens the fragile health of marine ecosystems.

• Wild Chronicles: Boreal Forest

  • The Pew Environment Group worked in collaboration with National Geographic Television to tell this story.
    

• Letter to North Pacific Fishery Management Council on Arctic Fishery Management Plan

  • This letter to Chairman Olson at the North Pacific Fishery Management Council from members of the scientific community commends the council for ...

• One Page Description: Safeguarding the Arctic

  • The Arctic is home to several of the Earth’s least disturbed large marine ecosystems.

• Chair's Summary of the Pew Whales Commission

  • The Commission meeting was the third such event organized by the Pew Environment Group. 

• Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

  • Bluefin tuna are remarkable creatures, able to dive to 3,000 feet and migrate thousands of miles each year across the ocean.

• Northern Albacore Tuna - ICCAT

  • Besides Atlantic bluefin tuna, albacore is the only species of temperate tuna managed by the International Commission for the Conservation of At...

• Protecting Western Australia's Big Blue Backyard

  • The marine environment from Kalbarri to Eucla is globally significant for its unique and threatened species, underwater features and ecosystems....

• Coal Versus Gold: $6 Billion in Royalties Versus $0
  • From 1920 to 2000, royalties collected from coal mined on federal lands totaled $6,061,942,562. In contrast, no royalties have ever been collected ...
• Pew Announces 2009 Recipients of Distinguished Marine Conservation Fellowship

  • The Pew Environment Group announced today that five individuals, representing Argentina, China, France and the United States, received the disti...

• Letter to Chairman Piñero-Soler, Caribbean Fishery Management Council, Mar. 2009

  • We are pleased to see the Council moving ahead with amendments to the appropriate fishery management plans to comply with the reauthorized Magnu...

• Letter to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission Regarding Gag Grouper, Greater Amberjack, and Gray Triggerfish

  • These fisheries are an important component of the economy for communities up and down the Texas coast.

• Comments of Sera Drevenak before the Caribbean Fishery Management Council, Mar. 2009

  • In 2006, Congress mandated an end to overfishing in all US waters by 2010.

• Phone Briefing: The Year Ahead for International Global Warming Talks

  • On Thursday, March 26, the Pew Environment Group hosted a global warming telepress briefing with Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), who chairs key...

• Tele-Press Briefing on Upcoming Historic Polar Meetings

  • On April 2, 2009, the Pew Environment Group and WWF led a press conference call to preview the first-ever joint Arctic Council/Antarctic Treaty ...

• Letter to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Regarding Federal Gulf Grouper Regulations
  • Gag has been determined by the latest stock assessment to be undergoing overfishing, or fished at an unsustainable rate.
• Public Opinion on Fishing in New England

  • A survey on voter attitudes toward overfishing and Amendment 16 was commissioned by the Pew Environment Group and was carried out by City Square...

• The Economic Case for a New Approach to Fisheries Management in New England

  • New England’s economy was built on the teeming fishing grounds off its shores, turning the region into an international powerhouse by the eighte...

• Letter from Joshua Reichert, Managing Director, Pew Environment Group, to Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar

  • Earlier this month, you recognized an important symbol of American liberty, and the Department’s initiative to allow visitors into the crown of ...

• Sectors: It's Time to Do Things Differently

  • In 2010, our groundfish fishery here in Maine and the rest of New England will take a dramatic turn and move in a new direction.

• Testimony of Sera Drevenak before the Caribbean Fishery Management Council, Jun. 2009

  • Other parts of the world have tried to push the limits of science to get one more grouper, one more tuna, and it hasn’t worked. 

• Annual Catch Limits Reinforced by Fishery Closure Provisions: Essential for Ending Overfishing in New England

  • A report by John D. Crawford, PhD, Pew Environment Group & Boston University Marine Program

• Letter to Chairman Piñero-Soler, Caribbean Fishery Management Council, Jun. 2009

  • We are pleased to see the Caribbean Fishery Management Council moving ahead with amendments to the appropriate fishery management plans to compl...

• Letter to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Regarding Amendment 17 to the South Atlantic Snapper-Grouper Fishery Management Plan

  • Overfishing is damaging to both the natural resources of the South Atlantic region, and to the long-term viability of our fishing industry and f...

• Pew Finds Clean Energy Economy Generates Significant Job Growth

  • The number of jobs in America’s emerging clean energy economy grew nearly two and a half times faster than overall jobs between 1998 and 2007, a...

• The Clean Energy Economy

  • The number of jobs in America’s emerging clean energy economy grew nearly two and a half times faster than overall jobs between 1998 and 2007. I...

• Phone Briefing: Clean Energy Economy

  • The Pew Charitable Trusts published a report detailing the nation’s clean energy economy, providing the first-ever hard count across all 50 stat...

• Letter to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Regarding Federal Gulf Grouper and Red Snapper Regulations

  • Consistent federal and state regulations are designed to minimize fishing mortality and are important to bring gag and red snapper populations t...

• Testimony of Chad W. Hanson before the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Jun. 2009

  • Florida is a leader in many important fishery issues and plays a critical role in many aspects of the federal management process.

• Survivors of Attacks Sink Teeth Into Fight to Save Sharks(2)

  • (Washington Post) Chuck Anderson is in Washington today to save the thing that bit off his arm.

• Pushing for Conservation, Shark Attack Victims Turn the Other Cheek

  • (Christian Science Monitor) In an extraordinary display of forgiveness, nine victims of shark attacks lobbied the Senate last week, on behalf of...

• Check Out the View from Route 1872

  • This summer the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and dozens of national parks and recreation areas will be vacation destinations for millions of Americ...

• Wish You Were Here? The Mining Industry Already Is

  • This summer the Grand Canyon and dozens of other national parks and recreation areas will be vacation destinations for millions.

• Uncertainty Created through Slippage: Presentation

  • Herring Alliance Director Peter Baker of the Pew Environment Group delivered a presentation on the uncertainty in fishery management created by ...

• The Tip of the Iceberg: Monitoring Loopholes in the Industrial Midwater Trawl Fishery for Atlantic Herring

  • This animation explores troubling loopholes in the herring fishery that prevent onboard observers from accurately sampling bycatch, including ma...

• Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Approaches Important Milestone: All Managed Fish Species Close to Healthy Levels

  • Summer flounder, one of the most important commercial and recreational fish species in the Mid-Atlantic states, has recovered to 89% of healthy ...

• Precautionary Management for Arctic Fisheries

  • The Arctic Ocean faces changes unparalleled on the planet.

• Shark Attack Survivor Fights for the Species

  • (Associated Press) Mike Coots survived a bloody shark attack and painful rehabilitation. Now he has a new battle ahead: trying to convince Capit...

• Shark Attack Victims Push for Shark Protection

  • (CNN) Mike Coots, who was attacked by a shark while surfing off the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 1997, now surfs with a prosthesis after losing h...

• Saving the Seafood

  • After a study warned that overfishing could destroy the world's seafood stocks, a recent report says that the situation is improving.

• Wild Chronicles: Australia

  • The Pew Environment Group worked in collaboration with National Geographic Television to tell this story.

• Letter to Commerce Secretary Locke Regarding the Red Snapper Interim Rule

  • Amendment 17-A to the SnapperGrouper Fishery Management Plan should be enacted without delay, and must include longterm, science based catch lim...

• Testimony of Holly Binns before the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, Aug. 2009

  • Gag and red grouper are two of the most important fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico.

• Letter to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Regarding Amendment 16 to the South Atlantic Snapper-Grouper Fishery Management Plan

  • The shallow water grouper spawning season closure seeks to end more than 30 years of chronic overfishing of gag grouper by setting the catch lev...

• Protect Our Coral Sea

  • Protect Our Coral Sea video featuring campaign “spokesfish,” Barry Wrasse. 

• Testimony of Holly Binns before the Caribbean Fishery Management Council, Sept. 2009

  • Overfishing must end. Overfished stocks must be rebuilt as quickly as possible. 

• Letter to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Regarding the Application of the Best Scientific Information to Fishery Management Plans

  • The Magnuson-Stevens Act requires that annual catch limits and accountability measures be in place by the 2010 fishing season for all species ex...

• Editorial: Gulf Stewardship

  • Accustomed as we are to headlines communicating alarm about overfishing of our world's marine resources, it was with relief that we greeted this...

• Testimony of Holly Binns before the South Atlantic Fishery Management Counci, Sept. 2009

  • We urge the Council to request a formal presentation of the SSC’s ABC control rule at the December meeting, and that you adopt the ABC control r...

• One Page Description: Coral Sea Marine Park

  • With more than 30 separate spectacular reefs and atolls rising thousands of meters from the seafloor and an abundance of large marine wildlife, ...

• Ocean Science Series: Redistribution of Fish Catch by Climate Change

  • Global climate change is expected to affect marine fisheries productivity because of changes in water temperature, ocean currents and other ocea...

• Letter to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council Regarding Gag Grouper, Oct. 2009

  • The updated stock assessment shows that gag grouper is experiencing both overfishing and is already dangerously overfished. 

• CNN International Oil Spill: Interview with John Carey

  • John Carey, with PEG’s Wild Australia program, discusses the environmental impact of a August 2009 oil rig leak and fire off Western Australia’s...

• Design Matters: Making Catch Shares Work

  • Catch shares are fishery management programs that allocate fishing privileges in the form of a specific portion of the total annual catch quota....

• Pew Environment Group Press Call (Audio) - ICCAT

  • Listen to a press briefing about what to expect from the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) meetings Novemb...

• Atlantic Sharks Fact Sheet - ICCAT

  • Sharks caught in high-seas fisheries are among the oceans’ most vulnerable animals. Their low reproductive rates make them particularly suscepti...

• Press Briefing: ICCAT 2009

  • Proposed Regulations Threaten Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

    • In November 2009, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposed an adjustment to Atlantic bluefin tuna fishing regulations that would in...

  • Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fact Sheet - ICCAT

    • Swift action is needed now to protect Atlantic bluefin tuna or it is likely to disappear from our seas and our menus forever.

  • Letter to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Regarding Amendment 17A to the South Atlantic Snapper-Grouper Fishery Management Plan, Nov. 2009

    • Red snapper have been overfished for the last 40 years, and have been reduced to 3% of 1945 levels.

  • Letter to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Regarding Amendment 17B to the South Atlantic Snapper-Grouper Fishery Management Plan, Nov. 2009

    • The South Atlantic region currently has ten species undergoing overfishing, more than any other region in the country. 

  • Testimony of Holly Binns before the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, Dec. 2009

    • Expanding the accountability measures for some species in Amendment 17-B is a necessary step toward restoring healthy fish populations in the So...

  • Pew Environment Group's Submission to the Consultation on CFP Reform

    • The Pew Environment Group’s European Marine Programme contribution to the consultation on the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy.

  • Domestic Economic Impacts of a CITES Appendix I Listing for Bluefin Tuna

    • This report examines what the economic impact would be on U.S. seafood markets, from fishermen to retailers, if bluefin tuna were listed among t...

  • Letter to Chairman Robert Shipp, Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, Regarding Scoping

    • Gag and red grouper are the two most important shallow-water grouper species in the Gulf of Mexico, particularly off the coast of Florida.

  • Letter to Chairman Robert Shipp, Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, Regarding Fish Traps

    • The use of fish traps was phased out in the Gulf of Mexico in 2007.

  • Testimony of Chad Hanson before the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council on Exempted Fishing Permits

    • The Exempted Fishing Permit application before the Council does not provide sufficient information regarding how the data collected would be eva...

  • Testimony of Chad Hanson before the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council on Reef Fish Total Allowable Catch

    • The recent stock assessment is a strong indication that the red snapper population in the Gulf of Mexico is on the road to recovery, and as a re...

  • Arctic Treasure: Global Assets Melting Away

    • Ice and snow are defining features of the Arctic. At no point in at least 800,000 years has the Arctic been without sea ice.

  • An Initial Estimate of the Cost of Lost Climate Regulation Services Due to Changes in the Arctic Cryosphere

    • Ice and snow are defining features of the Arctic. At no point in at least 800,000 years has the Arctic been without sea ice.

  • Support a Ban on the International Trade of Bluefin Tuna

    • Join U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Rob Wittman (R-VA) in urging the Administration to support a ban on the international trade ...

  • Climate Patriots

    • Climate Patriots addresses how America's dependence on foreign oil puts our armed forces in harm's way and how the effects of climate change cou...

  • Letter: U.S. Congress Members Support CITES Bluefin Tuna Proposal

    • Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Robert Wittman (R-Va.) cosponsored a bipartisan letter urging the Obama administration to ...

  • Letter to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Regarding Amendment 17A to the Snapper Grouper Fishery Management Plan, Feb. 2010

    • As you and the Council consider long-term measures to protect and rebuild red snapper, we appreciate the serious challenges you face as you wres...

  • Testimony of Holly Binns before the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, Mar. 2010

    • It is important for the interim rule to be renewed and for the Council to stay on track for final action at your meeting in June to ensure that ...

  • Pew Announces 2010 Recipients of Distinguished Marine Conservation Fellowship

    • The Pew Environment Group announced today that five individuals, representing Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom and Uruguay, received the 2010 P...

  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race?

    • The report, Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? (PDF), documents the dawning of a new worldwide industry—clean energy—which has experienced inv...

  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? Country Fact Sheets

    • The following pages profile the clean energy sector in each of the G-20 member countries profiled in the report Who's Winning the Clean Energy Ra...

  • China Leads G-20 Members in Clean Energy Finance and Investment

    • For the first time, China led the United States and other G-20 members in 2009 clean energy investments and finance, according to data released ...

  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race?

    • This video features Phyllis Cuttino, Pew Global Warming Campaign Director, discussing the new report Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? Gr...

  • FIFG 2000-2006 Shadow Evaluation

    • This report assesses the environmental and social impacts of the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG), running from 2000 to 2006, ...

  • Prolific Georges Bank Spared from Drilling

    • Pew Environment Group project manager Jud Crawford was interviewed on The Saving Seafood Hour radio show.

  • Reenergizing America's Defense: What the Experts are Saying

    • National security leaders, the defense community and academia increasingly recognize that climate change and the U.S. energy posture pose strate...

  • Reenergizing America's Defense: Military Bases and Energy Conservation at a Glance

    • National security leaders, the defense community and academia increasingly recognize that climate change and the U.S. energy posture pose strate...

  • Thank You, President Obama and Secretary Salazar, for Protecting Bristol Bay from Offshore Drilling

    • Oil and gas development presents tremendous risk to our world-class fisheries

  • Testimony of Holly Binns before the Caribbean Fishery Management Council, Apr. 2010

    • We are here to support the Council as you go through the challenging process of developing Annual Catch Limits and Accountability Measures for s...

  • PEG's Comments on Draft NOAA Catch Share Policy

    • The key to a successful catch shares program is how it is designed and implemented. 

  • Testimony of Holly Binns before the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, Apr. 2010

    • Given the severe depletion of the gag grouper population and the high fishing rates, we also strongly encourage the Council to move forward with...

  • Letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regarding Amendment 17A to the Snapper Grouper Fishery Management Plan, Apr. 2010

    • Red snapper have been overfished for the last 40 years, and have been reduced to 3% of ssustainable levels. 

  • Reenergizing America's Defense

    • Climate change, national security and energy dependence are interrelated global challenges. U.S. dependence on foreign sources of energy constit...

  • Letter to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Regarding Federal Red Snapper Regulations

    • Although the vast majority of individual recreational anglers abide by the current rules, unfortunately the recreational sector as a whole excee...

  • Testimony of Holly Binns before the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Apr. 2010

    • For a healthy red snapper population to meet its full reproductive potential, a robust age class structure needs to be achieved.

  • Letter to Chairman Piñero-Soler, Caribbean Fishery Management Council, Apr. 2010

    • The Comprehensive Annual Catch Limit Amendment is a critical first step towards ensuring sustainable fishing in waters of the U.S. Caribbean. 

  • The Case for Establishing Ecosystem-Scale Marine Reserves

    • Although over two-thirds of the planet’s surface is water, little of the marine environment has been protected. As recently as 2008, less than o...

  • Editorial: The Other Threat to Florida's Fishing

    • Hands down, the biggest threat to Florida's Gulf of Mexico fishery today is the oil gushing unchecked from a deep-water well off Louisiana's coa...

  • Offshore Exploration in the Arctic

    • The ongoing blowout from the BP Deepwater Horizon exploration well, in the Gulf of Mexico, has the potential to cause environmental catastrophe,...

  • Testimony of Christopher G. Mann on the Adequacy of MMS Regulations

    • My name is Christopher Mann and I serve as a Senior Officer with the Pew Environment Group in Washington, D.C.  I greatly appreciate your invita...

  • Crisis in the Gulf

    • On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire aboard an oil drilling platform unleashed a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • The Gulf Oil Spill: Effects on Marine Life

    • On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire aboard an oil drilling platform unleashed a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Historical Oil Spill Fact Sheets

    • Click on the links below (PDF) to view fact sheets providing data on the impact of significant oil spills of the past.

  • BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Maps
    • The Gulf of Mexico is home to many species that are currently at risk due to the oil spill. The following maps overlay the oil slick with the habit...
  • Atlantic Herring

    • Atlantic herring is one of the most important fishes in New England – a keystone species in the Northwest Atlantic.

  • Ocean Science Series: High Seas Fisheries Management Gets Low Marks

    • Fishing on the high seas—areas beyond the 200-nautical-mile jurisdiction of coastal states—is increasing, largely driven by advanced vessel and ...

  • Ocean Science Series: Sharks - The State of the Science

    • Declines in population sizes of sharks, as much as 70–80 percent, have been reported globally. This review of the current scientific literature ...

  • Preliminary Findings from a Gap Analysis

    • The Pew Environment Group is conducting a gap analysis to compare the port State measures established by ten Regional Fisheries Management Organ...

  • Finding Sustainability: Recommendations to the U.N. Fish Stocks Review Conference

    • This session of the United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA) Review Conference should take strong and meaningful action to improve the funct...

  • Letter to House Appropriations Committee Regarding Oil Spill Cleanup Funding

    • The ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has resulted in tragic loss of life, damaged the livelihoods of many, and is creat...

  • Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee Regarding Oil Spill Cleanup Funding

    • The ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has resulted in tragic loss of life, damaged the livelihoods of many, and is creat...

  • Closing Loopholes: Getting Illegal Fishing Under Control

    • Eighty percent of the world’s marine fish stocks are fully- or overexploited. Illegal and unreported fishing alone accounts for catches worth as...

  • Finalizar la pesca en exceso en el Caribe estadounidense

    • Las aguas fuera de Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes de los Estados Unidos son un paraíso tropical repleto de vida.

  • The Coastal Jobs Creation Act of 2010, H.R. 4914

    • Congressman Pallone (D-NJ), Congresswoman Pingree (D-ME), and Congresswoman Shea-Porter (D-NH) introduced H.R. 4914, the “Coastal Jobs Creation ...

  • Pew Environment Offshore Energy Reform Campaign

    • The late April explosion and sinking of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana once more brought into sharp focus ...

  • Testimony of Holly Binns before the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, Jun. 2010

    • Forty years of overfishing drove the red snapper population to dangerously low levels.

  • Letter to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council Regarding the Generic ACL and AM Amendment

    • The Gulf oil spill is still unfolding and will continue to be a major focus for NOAA Fisheries and the Gulf Council.

  • Mitos sobre la pesca en exceso en el Caribe estadounidense.
    • Cinco mitos sobre la pesca en exceso en el Caribe estadounidense.
  • Shark Bycatch in Tuna Fisheries

    • Bycatch is one of the most vexing issues confronting the global fishing industry. It poses significant ecological, social and economic challenge...

  • Teleconference to Discuss the International Whaling Commission's Annual Meeting

    • A teleconference was held on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 by the Pew Environment Group, World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace to discuss efforts to fin...

  • Testimony of Holly Binns before the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, Jun. 2010

    • The Gulf oil spill is still unfolding and will continue to be a major focus for NOAA Fisheries and the Gulf Council.

  • Testimony of Marilyn Heiman before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate

    • My name is Marilyn Heiman and I direct the Offshore Energy Reform Project and the US Arctic Program at the Pew Environment Group.

  • Battle of the Coral Sea - Lest We Forget

    • The Coral Sea holds great historical significance for Australia and the United States. In May 1942, it was the scene of a naval battle that reve...

  • Pressure on for Swift Makeover of Drilling Regulator

    • The federal agency charged with overseeing offshore oil drilling has been given a new name and has a new director. But critics say the changes h...

  • Letter to the Red Drum Special Working Group Regarding Allowable Biological Catch

    • Scientific and anecdotal information suggest that red drum populations may have rebounded substantially since the federal fishery was closed in ...

  • Outback Carbon

    • Tackling the challenge of climate change requires a comprehensive approach by communities and governments – encompassing businesses, the wider e...

  • Toward Improvement In Rebuilding Fisheries: Lessons from the United States

    • This report seeks to describe the process and pitfalls through the experience of the United States in enacting and amending legislation to manag...

  • Shark Attack Survivors Don't Forget but do Forgive

    • (The Guardian) They have the scars and missing limbs that make it hard to forgive, but these victims are tougher than most. And now they want to...

  • Joint-NGO Policy Brief to the European Commission on Deep-Sea TACs and Quotas

    • Key non-government organizations in Europe joined together to  urge the European Commission to base their decisions on science and sustainabilit...

  • Saving Caribbean Fish

    • If you have ever enjoyed a stroll on the beach or snorkeled over the coral reefs, you can thank the parrotfish.

  • Testimony of Sera Drevenak before the Caribbean Fishery Management Council, Jul. 2010

    • We are enormously supportive of the renewed efforts to collect more data and increase monitoring both federally and at the Territorial level.

  • The Impact of Pakistan’s Monsoon Floods on America’s National Security

    • Since the end of July, monsoon rains have severely affected Pakistan, with flooding levels not seen since at least the 1920s. Representatives of...

  • Letter to the Caribbean Fishery Management Council Regarding Annual Catch Limits and Accountability Measures

    • The Pew Environment Group’s comments and recommendations focus on the following key issues.

  • Oil Spill in the Gulf

    • As the Gulf Coast Oil Spill continues to affect the livelihood of so many states, we look at what this could mean for South Carolina.

  • River Herring
    • Learn the plight of river herring in the northeast United States through the stories of a recreational fisherman.
  • Testimony of Chad W. Hanson before the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, Aug. 2010

    • For red snapper, the oil spill occurred during and in the vicinity of where red snapper spawning occurs and overlaid much of their important juv...

  • Weir Fishing

    • A fishing weir is an ancient type of fish trap that is traceable back to Roman times in the UK and to the Bronze Age in Sweden.

  • Comments on the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s Comprehensive Annual Catch Limit Amendment, Aug. 2010

    • The revised Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act  requires annual catch limits and accountability measures such that overfis...

  • Letter to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Regarding the Comprehensive Annual Catch Limit and Accountability Measures Amendment

    • The revised Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act requires annual catch limits and accountability measures such that overfish...

  • Chagos Marine Reserve

    • Pew experts discuss the creation, in April, 2010, of the world's largest marine reserve in Chagos Islands. The designation bans commercial fishi...

  • Oceans North Canada Praises Creation of Arctic's First Marine Protected Area

    • Oceans North Canada commends Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his announcement today about the creation of the Tarium Niryutait Marine Protecte...

  • Testimony of Chad W. Hanson before the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Sept. 2010

    • Regionalizing red drum management may have some biological justification, but the existing data is designed to monitor the fishery coast-wide.

  • Joint-NGO Response to European Commission Consultation Document on Deep-Sea Fisheries
    • Key non-government organizations in Europe joined together to  urge the European Commission to base their decisions on science and sustainability w...
  • The Port State Measures Agreement Implementation Toolkit

    • Ports play a major role in the fishing industry. They give vessels and crews access to essential services and supplies and enable vessel operato...

  • Shark Survivors Team up to Save Species

    • (Today Show) They have the scars and missing limbs that make it hard to forgive, but these victims are tougher than most. And now they want to s...

  • Shark Victims Rally Behind the Species

    • (New York Times) Debbie Salamone has every reason to hold a grudge against sharks. In 2004, she was swimming at a beach in Florida when a shark ...

  • Shark-Attack Survivors Plead for Shark Conservation(2)

    • (National Geographic) Shark attack survivors from five countries will ask the United Nations today to adopt measures to protect sharks, accordin...

  • Shark Attack Survivors: Save the Sharks!(2)

    • (CBS News) You might think survivors of shark attacks would do anything in the world to not see a shark again. But, in fact, some hope to see ma...

  • Ocean Science Summary: Marine Fisheries and the World Economy

    • People in coastal countries depend on healthy fisheries for their livelihoods. Gross revenue globally from marine fisheries has been estimated dur...

  • Ocean Science Summary: Subsidizing Global Fisheries

    • Global fisheries receive billions of dollars in subsidies each year. Although some of this money, such as that to improve fisheries management, ca...

  • Ocean Science Summary: Global Benefits and Impacts of Marine Recreational Activities

    • Marine recreational activities (MRAs), such as recreational fishing and whale watching, are being enjoyed by more people than ever and can have s...

  • Shark Bite Victims Unite to Save Sharks

    • (Sydney Morning Herald) They've lost arms, legs and ankle parts but nine survivors of encounters with sharks, including Australian navy diver Pa...

  • Shark Attack Survivors Plead Case for Attackers During Rally at UN(2)

    • (New York Daily News) Nine shark attack survivors - some missing arms, legs or feet - came to the United Nations on Monday to beg the world to s...

  • Ocean Science Summary: Overfishing Trends and the Global Food Crisis

    • Thara Srinivasan of the Pacific Eco-informatics and Computational Ecology Lab, Rashid Sumaila of the University of British Columbia and their col...

  • The Pew Environment Group's recommendations to European Commission on Deep-Sea TACs

    • A Pew policy paper containing a detailed analysis of the scientific information available on the current status of deep-sea fish stocks in the N...

  • Atlantic Herring: History of a Fishery

    • Herring have been caught sustainably in New England waters for centuries. But the fishery has recently changed and industrial fishing now domina...

  • Red Snapper Comeback

    • Gulf of Mexico red snapper may finally be on the mend.

  • Letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Regarding Amendment 17A to the Snapper Grouper Fishery Management Plan

    • On behalf of the Pew Environment Group’s Ending Overfishing in the Southeast campaign, we are writing to urge the approval of Amendment 17A to t...

  • Shark Attack Survivors Fight to Save Sharks

    • (AOL News) Captain Ahab would be appalled. A group of shark attack survivors, all of whom either lost limbs or suffered permanent injury in thei...

  • Species at Risk: Unintended Consequences of Surface Longline Fishing

    • Surface longlines intended for yellowfin tuna and swordfish often stretch for 25 miles with hundreds of baited hooks attached. Unfortunately, th...

  • Editorial: A Sensible Move to Protect Fish Stocks

    • Federal fisheries managers are right to call for a temporary halt to recreational fishing for gag grouper in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Letter to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Regarding the Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden

    • The Pew Environment Group supports the Menhaden Management Board taking a conservative approach to managing fish like menhaden that are food for...

  • Testimony of Chad W. Hanson before the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, Oct. 2010

    • We urge the Council to include implementing language so that provisions in the ACL/AM Amendment explicitly translate across other species and pl...

  • Chagos Protected from Commercial Fishing

    • Commercial fishing around the Chagos Archipelago ended on October 31, 2010, making it the largest no-take marine reserve in the world. An estima...

  • Joint-NGO Recommendations to Fisheries Ministers

    • A joint-NGO position paper urging European Fisheries Ministers to set Total Allowable Catches (TACs) for deep sea species in the Northeast Atlan...

  • Arctic Drilling Poses Risks, Requires Planning

    • A new study by the Pew Environment Group recommends reforms to close gaps in oversight, response planning and risk assessment associated with pr...

  • Blueprint To Protect The Future Of Australia’s Oceans Revealed

    • For the first time, a science based blueprint for managing Australia’s oceans has been developed to safeguard marine life and protect economic a...

  • Systematic Conservation Planning: A Network of Marine Sanctuaries

    • The Ecology Centre of The University of Queensland has conducted an independent analysis of marine sanctuaries for the Commonwealth‘s South West...

  • Wilderness Week 2010

    • The last week in September, more than 120 wilderness advocates from across the country-teachers, hunters and anglers, small business owners, out...

  • Letter to NOAA Fisheries Service Regarding Snapper Grouper Fishery Management Plan

    • The South Atlantic region currently has ten species undergoing overfishing, more than any other region in the country.

  • Common Misconceptions About Arctic Offshore Oil Spill Response

    • View a fact sheet detailing a number of common misconceptions about the impact of an oil spill in the Arctic

  • Letter to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Regarding Gag Grouper, Nov. 2010

    • Gag grouper in the Gulf of Mexico is heavily overfished, undergoing overfishing, and is in need of significant reductions in harvest to end over...

  • Letter to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Regarding Comprehensive Annual Catch Limit Amendment, Dec. 2010

    • There have been several substantive improvements to the document since the last public version and we thank Council staff for putting a great de...

  • Letter to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Regarding Amendment 17A and Regulatory Amendment 10

    • According to SouthEast Data, Assessment, and Review, although red snapper have shown some improvement, the bottom line remains the same – they a...

  • Global Clean Power

    • In its latest report, "Global Clean Power: A $2.3 Trillion Opportunity," the Pew Environment Group describes profound economic gains over the ne...

  • Ottawa Takes Major Step Towards Creation of Lancaster Sound National Marine Conservation Area

    • The federal government today took a significant step towards the creation of the Arctic's first national marine conservation area in Lancaster S...

  • China to Dominate Private Investment in Clean Power Over Next Decade

    • 2010-12-08 China will remain the top destination for clean power project investment over the next decade, according to a report released today b...

  • India's Clean Power Sector Could Attract $169 Billion By 2020

    • India could attract $169 billion in clean power project investments over the next decade, according to a report released today by The Pew Charit...

  • Testimony of Holly Binns before the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Regarding Annual Catch Limits, Dec. 2010

    • As this Council finishes the hard work of ending overfishing, it is important to put measures in place to ensure that we don’t shift the problem...

  • Aggressive Clean Power Push an Economic Plus for U.S.

    • The United States will attract $245 billion in new clean power investments over the next decade but could gain nearly $100 billion more if aggre...

  • Testimony of Holly Binns before the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Regarding Red Snapper, Dec. 2010

    • We are cautiously optimistic that based on the new assessment and early indications that the moratorium is reducing encounters and effort, that ...

  • New NOAA Catch Share Policy Shows that Design Matters

    • Catch share programs can improve fisheries  environmental and economic  performance and management, but only if properly designed and monitored....

  • Joint-NGO Letter to the European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

    • A joint-NGO letter to Maria Damanaki, European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, outlining our serious concerns about European de...

  • Indigenous 'Rangers' Blaze a Trail for Sustainability

    • Northern Australia is one of the last great natural regions left on Earth. However, from Cape York to the Kimberley, pressure is now mounting fo...

  • Fishing Ban on Gag Grouper Begins Saturday

    • A fishing ban on gag grouper will take effect Saturday in a preliminary effort to replenish the species in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Global Clean Power: A $2.3 Trillion Opportunity

    • Over the last half decade, the clean energy economy has emerged around the world as a major new opportunity for investment, manufacturing, jobs ...

  • Atlantic Herring a Keystone Species in Decline

    • Populations of Atlantic herring are jeopardized by an industrial-scale fishing method known as midwater trawling. These trawlers haul huge cone-...

  • In Oil Drilling Reform, A Call For Science And Safety

    • The federal oil spill commission's final report contains many recommendations for the nation's offshore oil and gas industry.

  • Save a Fish, Preserve an Ecosystem: The U.S. Caribbean

    • If you have ever enjoyed a stroll on the beach or snorkeled over the coral reefs, you can thank the parrotfish.

  • Protecting Fisheries in the High Arctic

    • The Arctic Ocean is one of the planet’s most pristine marine regions, protected by its ice pack from the effects of commercial fishing, oil and ...

  • Working with Fishermen to Ensure Sustainable Seafood

    • Years of overfishing have brought significant consequences to one of New England's oldest industries. Fishermen have lost jobs, coastal business...

  • Letter to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council Regarding Gag Grouper, Jan. 2011

    • Gag grouper in the Gulf of Mexico is heavily overfished with excessive fishing rates and is in need of significant reductions in harvest in orde...

  • Meet the Experts: Holly Binns, Manager, End Overfishing in the Southeast

    • Holly Binns joined the Pew Environment Group in 2008 as manager of efforts to protect ocean life and end overfishing in the Gulf of Mexico, the ...

  • Meet the Experts: Steve Kallick, Director, International Boreal Conservation Campaign

    • Steve Kallick joined the Pew Environment Group in 1997 as a program officer and is now director of the International Boreal Conservation Campaig...

  • Letter to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Regarding the Comprehensive Annual Catch Limit Amendment

    • The proactive approach outlined in the Amendment is intended to prevent overfishing by setting cautious limits to keep fish populations from plu...

  • Comment from John D. Crawford on the Northeast Multispecies Amendment 16 FEIS

    • John D. Crawford, PhD, Science and Policy Manager for the Pew New England Fisheries Campaign, expresses support for the fishery management plan ...

  • Meet the Experts: Barry Traill, Director, Wild Australia Program

    • Barry Traill joined the Pew Environment Group in 2007 as director of the Wild Australia Program, a joint program of Pew and the Nature Conservan...

  • Letter to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Regarding Red Drum, Feb. 2011

    • We recognize the important role the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) plays in jointly managing important fisheries, such ...

  • Testimony of Holly Binns before the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, Feb. 2011

    • We remain concerned that there is no language in the Annual Catch Limits Amendment that clarifies how the provisions in this amendment like the ...

  • U.S. Proposes New Forest Management Plan

    • The federal Department of Agriculture unveiled a new plan on Thursday to manage the national forest system that government officials said would ...

  • Planned Revision of Forest Service Rules Assailed

    • Hoping to break a legal logjam that has stymied logging as well as ecosystem restoration, the U.S. Forest Service said Thursday it was revising ...

  • Administration’s National Forest Plan Would Weaken Current Rules

    • Jane Danowitz, U.S. public lands director for the Pew Environment Group, issued the following statement today in reaction to a draft of new U.S....

  • Letter to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Regarding Red Snapper
    • Too often fishery management is simply reactive to a never-ending series of crises, and we applaud the Council for taking a proactive look at the m...
  • Reclaim Our Future: The Pew Campaign for Responsible Mining

    • Prices today for minerals such as gold and uranium are heading skyward. Yet an antiquated federal law―virtually unchanged since it was signed by...

  • Letter to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Regarding Red Grouper, Feb. 2011

    • The Pew Environment Group is concerned that red grouper has been undergoing overfishing and overfished for 20 years and that the rebuilding plan...

  • Obama Administration Proposes New Planning Rule for National Forests

    • Federal supervisors would have to run the country's national forests to maintain ecological health and species diversity under a proposed Obama ...

  • Lives on the Sea: Where are the big fish?

    • The anglers were just offshore Charleston, following birds circling above baitfish, when they stumbled onto something unheard of -- trophy red d...

  • Restoring the Bounty of Our Oceans

    • Fish are essential to life in the world’s oceans. They are the predators or prey of virtually every creature that swims with them or flies above...

  • Meet the Experts: Marilyn Heiman, Director, Offshore Energy Reform

    • Marilyn Heiman joined the Pew Environment Group in January 2009 as director of the U.S. Arctic Program.

  • Louisiana SeaGrant Surface Longline Fact Sheet

    • Swordfish buoy gear and green sticks have been identified by scientific research and anecdotal reports from commercial fishermen as two promisin...

  • Federal Royalties for Gold and Copper?

    • A tiny item in the Obama budget puts the administration on the environmental side of one of the longest-running questions in the West: What do t...

  • There Is Little Room to Gamble on the Future of Fisheries in the Gulf

    • If you were blindfolded on the top of a cliff, how close would you dare get to the edge?

      That's the question facing federal fishery mana...

  • Protecting Krill - A Crucial Link to the Antarctic Food Chain

    • Climate change may be the most well-known threat to Antarctica. But the animals that inhabit its ecosystem and the Southern Ocean ― penguins, se...

  • Mariana Trench Marine National Monument Letters of Support

    • Read the letters that support the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument.

  • Pew Campaign Helps Cut Dependence on Foreign Oil

    • In 2007, as global concern over climate change, gas prices and dependence on foreign oil reached its height, the Pew Campaign for Fuel Efficienc...

  • Testimony of Holly Binns before the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Feb. 2011

    • We urge the Commission to go with Option A, to keep the moratorium on goliath grouper harvest in place.

  • Bringing the Ocean Back into the Earth Summit

    • Oceans are currently managed through a fragmented system where national and international bodies possess separate and overlapping jurisdictions....

  • The Ocean in the 2012 Earth Summit: A Brief Background

    • While perhaps well-intentioned, States, and in particular the major fishing States, have failed to live up to the relevant provisions of the Rio...

  • A Strong Renewable Electricity Standard Makes America Stronger

    • A Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) is one of the most effective energy policy strategies to help the United States achieve greater prosperit...

  • The Clean Energy Economy in the United States

    • The U.S. clean energy economy is present in every state, generating new industries and employing a wide variety of workers.

  • Letter to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council Regarding the Snapper Grouper Fishery Management Plan

    • We are concerned that the Council may be moving quickly to make significant changes to the area closure for eight deepwater species contained in...

  • Rush to Increase Drilling Not the Answer

    • Marilyn Heiman, Pew's director of Offshore Energy Reform and the U.S. Arctic Program, responds to Amy Harder's blog "How Should Obama React to S...

  • Canada's Boreal Forest Gaining Ground

    • The International Boreal Conservation Campaign, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts, supports conservation of old-growth forests and wild...

  • Joint-NGO Follow-up Letter to the European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

    • A joint-NGO letter to Maria Damanaki, European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, that follows up on a February 1, 2011 meeting wi...

  • Letter to the Northeast Fisheries Science Center Regarding the 2011 Priorities for At-Sea Observers

    • The Atlantic Herring Campaign is concerned about the proposed cuts to monitoring the midwater trawl fleet, which are the largest vessels in the ...

  • VA's Family Farms Left Holding the...Manure?

    • Many of the small family farms in Virginia have been replaced by fewer, larger industrialized animal operations - and yet, the rules for dealing...

  • Testimony of Sera Drevenak before the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, Mar. 2011

    • The proactive approach outlined in this amendment is intended to prevent overfishing by setting cautious limits that will keep fi...

  • Canada's Boreal Houses World's Largest Water Source

    • A first of its kind report by the Pew Environment Group reveals that Canada’s boreal, the world’s largest intact forest and on land carbon store...

  • Letter to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Regarding the Upcoming River Herring Stock Assessment

    • The Herring Alliance hopes that the stock assessment report will include a good evaluation of the total at-sea catch of river herring by fisheri...

  • The Great Barrier Reef Structural Adjustment Package

    • Independent reviews of the Australian program to help fishers displaced by rezoning of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park show the program suffe...

  • Letter to the New England Fisheries Management Council Regarding Haddock Bycatch by Atlantic Herring Trawlers

    • The Herring Alliance is concerned that the current options for a new management measure, which is supposed to minimize haddock bycatch by the At...

  • Industry Opposition to Government Regulation

    • For decades, corporations and their trade associations have opposed regulations aimed at protecting human health and the environment. Industry h...

  • Global Clean Power: A $2.3 Trillion Opportunity Country Fact Sheets

    • The extraordinary worldwide growth in clean energy investment over the past five years has been defined by a simple fact: where supportive clean...

  • Overseas Eel Research Ship Visits Bermuda
    • On March 17, Bernews highlighted PEG’s Global Ocean Legacy staff visit to Bermuda to discuss the establishment of a very large, no-take ma...
  • Letter to the National Marine Fisheries Service Regarding a New Management Measure for New England Groundfish

    • The Pew Environment Group supports many of the provisions in the latest groundfish management plan update including new state permit banks, moni...

  • Alaska Oil Lingers, Decades Later

    • Minutes after midnight on March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez super tanker ran aground and began leaking oil in Alaska’s beautiful and biologically...

  • Exxon Valdez 22 Years Later

    • In special commentary for DiscoveryNews, Pew communications manager Debbie Salamone discusses the lasting effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill ...

  • Governor Granholm Joins Pew to Champion Clean Energy Policy

    • The Pew Charitable Trusts announced its collaboration with former Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm to launch a national campaign for clean...

  • Cod, Is it for Dinner?

    • In January, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a national arbiter of fish choices for concerned Americans, announced significant changes to its Seafood ...

  • Governor Granholm: Clean Energy Policy Leader

    • Former Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm will serve as a senior advisor in Pew's efforts to promote clean energy policies that create jobs,...

  • What Exxon Valdez Spill Can Still Teach Us

    • Marilyn Heiman, Pew's director of Offshore Energy Reform and the U.S. Arctic Program, discusses what the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spi...

  • Fishers Cast their Support for Our Coral Sea

    • Tens of thousands of Australians, including several thousand recreational fishers, have been moved to support the establishment of a very large,...

  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2010 Edition

    • The clean energy race is on. The investment and finance data presented in the Pew Clean Energy Program's new report, Who's Winning the Clean Ene...

  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2010 Edition: Country Fact Sheets

    • Countries with clear, consistent and constructive clean energy policies are powering investment forward. Explore the fact sheets below to see G-...

  • Overfishing 101: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding U.S. Fishery Management

    • Fishermen, conservationists and scientists have actively debated how best to manage our ocean fish populations for decades. But with so much at ...

  • Bill to Protect Northern NM Wilderness Introduced in Senate and House

    • Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, late yesterday introduced the "Rio Grande del Norte Na...

  • Safety First

    • Before this country even thinks of expanding drilling in the remote and fragile Arctic Ocean reforms must ensure that oil companies can respond ...

  • Obama Energy Plan Would Reduce Oil Imports

    • President Obama has a big goal for the U.S. He wants to reduce oil imports by one third by the year 2025. If that sounds familiar, it's because ...

  • Global Clean Energy Race

    • The clean energy race is on. The investment and finance data presented in the Pew Clean Energy Program's new report, Who's Winning the Clean Ene...

  • U.S. Rule Aimed at Letting Big Tuna Off the Hook
    • Federal fisheries officials, after field studies and public debate, have issued a new rule requiring commercial fishing boats deploying long lines ...
  • Despite Tensions Over Gulf Spill, BP Will Be Back

    • Sixteen days before the first anniversary of the worst oil spill in U.S. history, BP's efforts to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico have pro...

  • Three More Reasons for Clean Energy

    • We've heard again and again that concerns about the environment, public health and national security are reasons to develop policies that encour...

  • Meet the Experts: Lee Crockett, Director, Federal Fisheries Policy

    • Meet the Pew Environment Group's Federal Fisheries Policy Director Lee Crockett.

  • America's Fishing Law on the Line

    • Enjoyed some tasty New England scallops lately? Reeled in a Gulf of Mexico red snapper? Feasted on some mid-Atlantic summer flounder? Aside from...

  • Myths about Fishing in the Caribbean

    • Debunking five myths about fishing in the Caribbean.

  • Conserving Fish in the U.S. Caribbean

    • The waters off Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are a tropical paradise teeming with life. But the brilliant coral reefs and schools of v...

  • The US and the Green Battle

    • We speak with former Michigan governor, Jennifer Granholm, who now serves as senior adviser at Pew Charitable Trusts, where she promotes clean e...

  • Balanced Energy Means No Rush to Drill

    • This nation needs a long-term, comprehensive energy plan that incorporates renewable energy and emphasizes conservation along with conventional ...

  • Ten Treasures Under Threat

    • Photos of ten U.S. national treasures under threat from encroaching mining claims.

  • Mining Claims Could Mar National Park and Wilderness Area Borders, Report Says

    • (Los Angeles Times) Mining claims threaten to mar the borders of 10 iconic national parks and wilderness areas, particularly the Grand Canyon, w...

  • Mining Threatens Grand Canyon and Other Landmark U.S. Sites, Report Says

    • (Yale Environment 360) Mining companies have exploited outdated U.S. laws to stake claims for gold, uranium, and other minerals at 10 national p...

  • Uranium Mines Threaten Grand Canyon and Mount Rushmore, Report Warns

    • (Guardian) America's most majestic landscapes – from the Grand Canyon to Mount Rushmore – are at risk because of booming global demand for urani...

  • Environmental Groups, Sportsmen Blast Plan that Weakens Forest Protections

    • Environmental and sportsmen's groups are mobilizing to toughen the government's latest plan to protect remaining roadless national forest land i...

  • Pew Report: Mining claims Threaten Parks in Colorado, Utah

    • (Denver Business Journal) Ten of America’s scenic treasurers — including Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument as well as Arches and Canyonlands...

  • Colorado Roadless Rule Prop Draws Heat from Conservation Groups

    • The State of Colorado and the U.S. Forest Service today announced yet another draft version of the controversial Colorado Roadless Rule that has...

  • Pew Report: Mining Claims Jeopardize 10 Western Treasures

    • (Denver Post) Ten of the western United States' best-known national parks and monuments are being jeopardized by a dramatic increase in gold, ur...

  • Fisheries Management Laws Angled for Long Haul

    • Besides disco balls, bell-bottoms and lava lamps, the 1970s can lay claim to something far more important -- a host of landmark environmental la...

  • A Plan to Save 9 Species - Amendment 17-B

    • Federal fishery managers are working to end overfishing of nine imperiled species in the U.S. South Atlantic from North Carolina to Florida. The...

  • Red Snapper: New Study, Same Plight

    • The new South Atlantic red snapper assessment documents some changes in red snapper’s condition but the story remains the same: The fish are sti...

  • Snowy Grouper: Signs of Decline

    • Fishery managers limited fishing of snowy grouper in 1993, but the species didn’t recover.

  • Fishermen Adapt to New Rules

    • As he unloaded his catch, Chatham fisherman Eric Hesse had only good things to say about a controversial new fishery management system known as ...

  • New Fishing Quota System Gains Support

    • On June 24, 2009, John Pappalardo, the Chairman of the New England Fishery Management Council, walked into a critical council meeting in Portlan...

  • NE Fishing Debate Played Out in Fishermen Friction

    • Mike Russo grew up on Cape Cod, where the sea was always in the air or just around the bend, and knew by middle school he wanted to work a fishi...

  • Feds Take Steps to Aid Safety of Drilling

    • New technology and a reorganization of federal oversight of offshore oil drilling have improved safety since last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spil...

  • Offshore Drilling Plans Stir Concerns over Alaska Spill

    • As industry and government look to expand drilling in the U.S. Arctic Ocean, many Alaska Natives who live along the nation's northernmost coast ...

  • Editorial: Our Forests Need Your Input

    • It may sound like a lot of bureaucratic buzzing, but the public has a big stake in the Forest Service's ongoing rule-making process.

  • Editorial: Keep an Eye on Ag Abuses

    • A bill was introduced into the state Legislature recently that would ban the distribution of all videos and other information documenting animal...

  • Editorial: EPA and the Bay

    • One of the cuts that resulted from the tense negotiations to avert a government shutdown was welcomed by advocates of the Chesapeake Bay restora...

  • Editorial: CAFO Legislation Not a Remedy for Debate Among Rural Neighbors

    • Missouri Sen. Brian Munzlinger, R-Williamstown, and Rep. Tom Shively, D-Clarence, both want what's best for farmers, yet they find each other on...

  • Editorial: Too Soon to Rush Back to Deepwater Drilling

    • A year has passed since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 workers and triggered the worst environmental disaster in the n...

  • Editorial: Delaware's Cap-and-Trade is Paying Off for the State

    • If New York wants to position itself at the epicenter of the country's growing renewable energy industry -- producing new jobs and economic oppo...

  • Editorial: A Solar Economy

    • If New York wants to position itself at the epicenter of the country's growing renewable energy industry -- producing new jobs and economic oppo...

  • Editorial: We're No. 3

    • While Congress continues wasteful subsidies and tax breaks for oil and coal, the U.S. continues to fall behind in the global race to develop cle...

  • Editorial: Renewable-Energy Law a Boon to California Job-Seekers

    • Tuesday was a good day for the 2 million Californians who are looking for work.

  • Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm Kicks Off Clean Energy Tour

    • Former Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm, senior adviser to The Pew Charitable Trusts' Clean Energy Program, is launching a national campai...

  • Editorial: A Good Law That's Working

    • After years of overfishing, many fish populations have begun to recover. On Monday, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced that New England’s f...

  • Editorial: Climate for Compromise

    • Consider a letter that U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown sent to President Obama in late February.

  • Editorial: For Brown, a Sad Turnaround on Environmental Matters

    • As a state senator in Massachusetts, Scott Brown voted for a regional pact to ratchet down power companies’ carbon dioxide emissions.

  • Editorial: Concealing Cruelty

    • Ever been curious about how the egg industry operates? You're welcome to take a virtual tour of an Iowa egg plant run by Rose Acre Farms.

  • Arctic Drilling: Lessons Learned From the Deepwater Horizon Spill

    • There are no quick fixes for the nation's energy needs. Although oil plays a role in President Obama's energy plan, the government must ensure p...

  • Former Mich. Governor Granholm Touts Clean Energy

    • (Chicago Tribune) Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Thursday told an audience in Little Rock that new investments in clean energy were n...

  • Net Gain for Fish, Fishery

    • (Boston Herald) Last May, the New England groundfish industry transitioned to a new management system, known as sectors, in which groups of fish...

  • Meet the 2011 Pew Marine Fellows

    • Journey to Chile, Mexico, Oceania and the world of forage fish as we meet the 2011 Pew Marine Fellows and visit the special places where they li...

  • Editorial: Putting Scum to Work for Us

    • (Baton Rouge Advocate) If there’s one thing we can be No. 1 in, it’s pond scum. Almost literally.

  • Editorial: New Catch Limits Signal Success of New Fish Rules

    • When May 1 rolls around this year, commercial fishermen in New England will get something that they haven't had in a long time: Good news.

  • Meet the Experts: Polita Glynn, Manager, Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation

    • Polita Glynn joined the Pew Environment Group in 2009 as manager of the Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation, which provides fellowships t...

  • Editorial: Hiding the Truth About Factory Farms

    • (New York Times) A supermarket shopper buying hamburger, eggs or milk has every reason, and every right, to wonder how they were produced.

  • Editorial: A Sane Energy Policy

    • (Pensacola News Journal) Each and every time Floridians pass a gas station this summer, and watch the price per gallon rise above $4, above $5 a...

  • Editorial: Mining Threatens Parks

    • (Eugene Register-Guard) More than a century ago, Teddy Roosevelt gazed out on the Grand Canyon and urged his fellow citizens to enjoy one of “th...

  • Who Protects the Animals?

    • (New York Times) Getting caught is a drag.

  • Editorial: Dirty Air

    • (Salt Lake Tribune) The mission of the EPA is to protect the environment. But those who criticize government interference in business forget tha...

  • Editorial: Colorado Roadless Rule Protects Land, Industry

    • (Denver Post) After nearly six years of debate, Colorado officials have released what we find to be a smart plan to block roads on nearly 4.2 mi...

  • Global Ocean Legacy Visits Pitcairn

    • Heather Bradner and Elisabeth Whitebread, with the Pew Environment Group, write about their recent visit to Pitcairn.
      

  • Shell Presses for Alaskan Oil

    • (United Press International) Shell aims to get permission from Alaskan authorities to drill as many as 10 new wells there, though environmentali...

  • Shell Tries to Calm Fears on Drilling in Alaska

    • (The New York Times) Shell Oil will present an ambitious proposal to the federal government this week, seeking permission to drill up to 10 expl...

  • Why Being a Foodie isn't 'Elitist'

    • (Washington Post) At the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual meeting this year, Bob Stallman, the group’s president, lashed out at “self-ap...

  • The Biggest Myth About 'Natural' Meat Busted

    • (Huffington Post) When it comes to making cleaner, greener food choices, most concerned consumers take care to choose the most “natural” meats. ...

  • Conservation Programs, Other Farm Subsidies Targeted in Federal Budget Battles

    • (Washington Post) Over the past five years, Nebraska farmer Kevin Raun has submitted numerous conservation plans to the USDA for funds to conver...

  • OCEAN2012 Welcomes Commission's Desire to End Discards as Part of CFP Reform

    • Uta Bellion, director of the Pew Environment Group’s European Marine Programme and OCEAN2012 coordinator, issued the following statement on the ...

  • Industrial Animal Agriculture is Not a Pretty Picture

    • A heated debate is under way in Minnesota over legislation that would criminalize the production or possession of videos of animal agricultural ...

  • Foes Highlight Companies' Foreign Ownership in Bids to Halt Uranium Mining

    • (Greenwire) Environmentalists trying to halt U.S. uranium projects are emphasizing the foreign ownership of mining companies.

  • Countdown to Grand Canyon Decision Begins

    • Within weeks, the Obama administration is due to announce whether it will continue a ban on new mining claims on federal land surrounding Grand ...

  • Maximizing Fuel Efficiency for Cars and Light Trucks

    • National policies that promote fuel efficiency are important for smany reasons, including the enhancement of the nation's competitiveness in the...

  • Arizonans Call for Canyon Mining Moratorium

    • (Public News Service) Hundreds of thousands of Americans, including 36 Arizona groups, have weighed in to support a federal proposal for a 20-ye...

  • Letter to the NOAA Fisheries Service, Southeast Regional Office Regarding Temporary Regulations for Gag Grouper

    • Gag is one of the most important fisheries in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, but it is heavily overfished with fishing rates far higher than those ...

  • State-by-State: Industrial Energy Efficiency

    • Combined heat and power (CHP) presents America's industrial sector with one of the most cost-effective, near-term solutions to reduce U.S. energ...

  • State-by-State: Businesses Know That Economic and Job Growth Starts with Policy

    • In lieu of federal energy policy, states are enacting policies that create jobs and attract private investment in the clean energy economy. Stat...

  • Charest unveils $80B plan for northern Quebec

    • (CBC/Radio-Canada) An ambitious plan to develop Quebec's north — an area about twice the size of France — was being hailed by Premier Jean Chare...

  • Quebec Unveils $80 Billion Plan for Undeveloped North

    • (AFP) Quebec unveiled an $80-billion plan on Monday to rev up forestry and mining development over the next 25 years in its vast northern region...

  • Letter to the National Marine Fisheries Service Regarding Plans for State-Operated Permit Banks

    • Our letter supports the plan to expand the permit bank system in New England, which would preserve access to the fishery for local, small-scale ...

  • Letter to NMFS Recommending Appointment of Four Candidates to Fisheries Management Councils

    • All four candidates are highly knowledgeable about New England and Mid-Atlantic fisheries and have a vast and diverse experience in the fishery....

  • Editorial: Groping for an Energy Policy

    • (Las Vegas Review-Journal) From the are-you-tone-deaf-and-mathematically-challenged department:
      Our president pens a letter to congressio...

  • Editorial: Clean-Fuel Cars

    • (Salt Lake Tribune) It’s too early to worry about fuel-tax revenue being lost to the growing, but still small, number of hybrids and electric ca...

  • Editorial: Factory Farm Protection Act Degrades Missouri's Constitution

    • (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Missouri lawmakers passed House Bill 209 by wide margins earlier this month. It limits the rights of people who own la...

  • FishSubsidy.org: Stop Spending in the Dark

    • Markus Knigge, policy and research director for the Pew Environment Group's EU Marine Programme, talks about the need for transparency and acces...

  • How an International Fisheries Agreement Would Help Protect the High Arctic

    • Henry Huntington, science director for the Pew Environment Group's Arctic campaign, explains why an international fisheries agreement is needed ...

  • Integrating Science and Policy: How Scientists Can Help CITES Advance Marine Conservation

    • Sue Lieberman, Pew's director of international policy, shares how CITES works and how it could help ocean conservation efforts.

       

  • Penguins as Indicators: Understanding the Changing Marine Environment

    • The fragile conservation status of most penguins populations reflects problems in the world's Southern Ocean, including climate change, pollutio...

  • Why the Australian Floods Were Good for the Outback

    • Public Radio International's The World program travels to the Australian Outback with the Pew Environment Group's Barry Traill to highlight the ...

  • Critics Say Forest Planning Rules Go Against Obama Pledge to Let Science be the Guide

    • (The Associated Press) The Obama administration's proposed new rules for protecting clean water and wildlife on the United States' nearly 200 mi...

  • Editorial: Locals Should Level Playing Field for Solar

    • (Sacramento Bee) California has invested lots of money and sweat equity in building the foundation for green energy, nowhere more so than in the...

  • Letter of Support for the Pacific Fishery Management Council's Ecosystem Fishery Management Plan

    • West Coast fishing, conservation and eco-tourism organizations are encouraging the Pacific Fishery Management Council to develop a fishery ecosy...

  • Editorial: Working Solutions

    • (Cape Cod Times) The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement's decision last week to halve the area zoned for development ...

  • Editorial: A Sour Oyster Stew

    • (Baltimore Sun) Maryland is heavily invested in restoring the Chesapeake Bay's oyster population, as well it should be. The tasty bivalves are n...

  • Editorial: Brownback's Plan Preserves Flint Hills, Boosts Wind Power in Kansas

    • (Kansas City Star) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s new plan to double the size of the precious “Tallgrass Heartland” in the Flint Hills is a classic...

  • Editorial: Cut Ethanol Subsidy: If it Ever Made Sense, it Sure Doesn't Now, Given Rising Food Prices and Soaring Deficits

    • (Houston Chronicle) There may have been a time when offering a federal subsidy to corn growers to convert their crop for use as fuel could be ra...

  • Australian Scientists Find New Species of Frog in Cape York Peninsula

    • (Xinhuanet) Australian scientists on Friday said they have discovered a new species of frog in Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland.

      ...
  • Comments re: Amendment to the Spiny Lobster Fishery Management Plan in the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

    • On behalf of the Pew Environment Group's Southeast Fish Conservation Campaign, we are writing to express our concern that Spiny Lobster Amendmen...

  • Comments re: The Comprehensive Annual Catch Limit Amendment

    • On behalf of the Pew Environment Group's South Atlantic Fish Conservation Campaign, we are writing to express our support for approval of the Co...

  • Chagos Marine Reserve and the Chagossian Right of Return

    • The Pew Environment Group is aware of the legal challenges brought by Chagossian groups against the UK government. This issue has been in disput...

  • Letter to the National Marine Fisheries Service Regarding a Recent Report on Scientific Review

    • This letter challenges one finding of the report - that there is too much reliance on outside reviewers. In fact, external peer review is critic...

  • Letter to the National Marine Fisheries Service Regarding A Review of the New England Fishery Management Process

    • Our letter requests a plan for changes based on the report's findings, a shared vision for fisheries management in New England and a system of p...

  • U.S. Declines to Protect the Overfished Bluefin Tuna

    • (New York Times) The Obama administration said on Friday that it had declined to grant Endangered Species Act protections to the Atlantic bluefi...

  • NOAA Declines to Protect Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

    • (Washington Post) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday that the world’s most sought-after fish, the Atlantic bluefin ...

  • Pew Statement on Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Decision

    • Lee Crockett, director, Federal Fisheries Policy for the Pew Environment Group, released the following statement in response to the National Oce...

  • Lines on a Map Don't Tell the Whole Story of Marine Reserves

    • (Sydney Morning Herald) The journey has taken so long, you could be forgiven for not knowing when we started. It was 1998, when Robert Hill held...

  • Animal Agriculture Needs to Stop Chickening Out of Bay Cleanup

    • (The Chesapeake Bay Journal) For those of us with long memories and ample age, today's debate on the Chesapeake Bay cleanup is familiar and deep...

  • Prominent Americans Urge President Obama to Protect Grand Canyon Now

    • An ad this week in the New York Times features an open letter from 50 statesmen, scholars and conservation leaders urging a 20-year extension of...

  • A Clear View of the Troubled Oceans

    • (New York Times) The scale and toll of industrial fishing is far less familiar than even the scale and toll of industrial farming.

  • Comments on the Final Draft Standard of the Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue

    • The Pew Environment Group has had the opportunity to convey concerns and engage in deep dialogue regarding the fine points of individual standar...

  • Testimony Before the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council

    • Holly Binns, manager of the South Atlantic Fish Conservation Campaign, provided testimony at the June 2011 South Atlantic Fishery Management Cou...

  • Pew Policy Statement: United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea

    • The Pew Environment Group urges States to focus at ICP on a strong outcome that will help ensure ocean priorities at Rio+20, including a way for...

  • What is Clean Energy?

    • Sharing their bi-partisan agreement in this short video, former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) and Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.) discuss why...

  • Increase My MPG!

    • High gas prices may give us pause before taking a long road trip, but we still need to drive to work, the grocery store or school. This Pew Clea...

  • U.S. Southeast Fishermen Speak Out: Protect our Fish
    • Many conservation-minded anglers favor scientifically sound fishing limits to help depleted species recover and prevent overfishing.
  • Press Briefing Audio Recording: Bahamas Announces Shark Sanctuary

    • Listen to a recording of the July 5 press briefing on The Bahamas' announcement that all commercial shark fishing in the approximately 630,000 s...

  • Bahamas Bans Commercial Shark Fishing

    • (The Washington Post) The Bahamas announced Tuesday morning it would end all commercial shark fishing in its waters, an area that encompasses mo...

  • Bahamas Government Bans Commercial Shark Fishing

    • (Associated Press) The Bahamas banned commercial fishing of sharks Tuesday, awarding protection to the more than 40 species circling the island ...

  • Finish Marine Parks - Environment Groups

    • (Australian Associated Press) A national coalition of 11 environment groups, Save Our Marine Life, has warned the federal government risks break...

  • Ottawa Moves to Preserve Home for the Woodland Caribou

    • (Globe and Mail) The federal government is on the verge of completing a recovery plan for the woodland caribou, which has disappeared from the M...

  • Protect Section 526 for America's National and Energy Security

    • H.R. 1540—the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of Fiscal Year 2012—contains a provision that would repeal Section 526 of the Energy Ind...

  • Sharkonomics: Why Shark Sanctuaries Make Sense

    • In special commentary for DiscoveryNews, Pew's Debbie Salamone discusses the importance of shark sanctuaries to the species and to a country's e...

  • Comments to Inform BOEMRE's Preparation of an Environmental Assessment of Shell Offshore Inc.’s Revised Exploration Plan for the Beaufort Sea

    • The Pew Environment Group U.S. Arctic Campaign and Ocean Conservancy submitted the following comments regarding issues the Bureau of Ocean Energ...

  • Oregon's Marine Reserves Moving Forward

    • (Governor Kitzhaber & Representative Cowan) Under the leadership of State Representative Jean Cowan, the Oregon Coastal Caucus, and Governor Kit...

  • Don't Put America's Arctic Ocean at Risk
    • America's Arctic Ocean is central to the diet and culture of indigenous communities who have practiced a subsistence way of life for thousands of y...
  • Comments on Shell's 2011 Revised OCS Lease Exploration Plan, Camden Bay, Beaufort Sea, Alaska, and Revised Beaufort Sea, Regional Exploration Oil Discharge Prevention and Contingency Plan

    • Shell’s proposed plan would be the first OCS exploration proposed for approval in the Arctic Ocean since the tragic Deepwater Horizon spill in t...

  • The Poultry Industry's Threat to the Chesapeake

    • There are hotspots along the Broiler Belt with even greater concentrations of poultry operations. Nowhere has the problem of managing broiler ma...

  • How Chicken Litter Becomes a Water Pollutant

    • The manure produced by the hundreds of thousands of chickens within a single concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) carries serious negat...

  • The Rise of Industrial-Scale Chicken Production

    • The broiler industry has changed drastically over the last 50 years and now produces more than 8 billion birds—an increase of more than 1400%.

  • Turning the Tables: Attack Survivors Help Sharks

    • Summer is anniversary time for many shark attack survivors. This time of year, they mark the terrifying moments of struggle in the jaws of the o...

  • Obama In Sync With America On Standards

    • In commentary for the National Journal, Phyllis Cuttino, director of the Pew Clean Energy Program, discusses the Obama administration's announce...

  • Shell Gets Tentative Approval to Drill in Arctic

    • (The New York Times) The Department of the Interior on Thursday granted Royal Dutch Shell conditional approval of its plan to begin drilling exp...

  • Letter to the Caribbean Fishery Management Council Regarding the Comprehensive Annual Catch Limit Amendment

    •  The Pew Environment Group offers its support for the passage of the Caribbean Fishery Management Council's Comprehensive Annual Catch Limit Ame...

  • Comments Regarding the Caribbean Fishery Management Council's Comprehensive Annual Catch Limit Amendment

    • On behalf of the Pew Environment Group we would like to offer our support for the passage of the Comprehensive ACL Amendment as well as recommen...

  • Coral Sea a Hotspot for Marine Life

    • (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) A report on the state of the Coral Sea off north Queensland has found that it is one of the last places on...

  • Australia's Coral Sea is 'Biodiversity Hotspot'

    • (Agence France-Presse) The Coral Sea off Australia's northeast coast is one of the last remaining places brimming with large predatory fish such...

  • Seeking Protection for Coral Sea 'Hotspot'

    • (Discovery News) The Coral Sea is perhaps best known and celebrated for the area that occupies much of its western edge: the Great Barrier Reef,...

  • Treasures of the Coral Sea

    • Australia’s Coral Sea—a vast area of ocean adjacent to the world-renowned Great Barrier Reef Marine Park—is home to some of the world’s most glo...

  • Editorial: High-Yield Fish Nursery

    • (The Register Guard ) Anyone doubting the importance of establishing marine reserves to restore depleted fish species off the Oregon Coast shoul...

  • Call for Coral Sea Conservation Zone

    • (Radio Australia) A report into the Coral sea found that its one of the last places on earth where large marine animals can still be found in si...

  • Scientists Call for End to Deep-Sea Fishing

    • (Washington Post) Industrial fishing in the deep sea should be banned because it has depleted fish stocks that take longer to recover than other...

  • Australians Show Support for Coral Sea Marine Park

    • To commemorate Threatened Species Day on September 7, the Protect Our Coral Sea campaign, a project of the Pew Environment Group, has released a...

  • Deep Sea Under Threat

    • Far below the surface of our oceans lie entire mountain ranges covered with ancient corals and unusual creatures. Though we once thought the dee...

  • Arctic Offshore Drilling Needs Inuit Involvement at Every Stage: Oceans North

    • (Nunatsiaq News) ”Apt and timely” is how Mary Simon, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kantami,” describes the analysis and policy recommendations on ...

  • Major Overhaul Needed of Standards for Arctic Drilling: Study

    • (Vancouver Sun) A leading Arctic environmental group says it has identified "critical weaknesses" in Canada's regulatory system for approving po...

  • Canada Must be Ready Before Arctic Drilling: Report

    • (Reuters) Canada should strengthen its capability to handle Arctic oil spills before it allows deepwater drilling in its Arctic waters and it sh...

  • Put the Brakes on Deep-Sea Fishing

    • (Washington Post) The world’s deep-sea catch is steadily declining, and the high vulnerability of these fish populations and diverse marine ecos...

  • Giving Back to the Land

    • On September 24, we will celebrate both National Public Lands and National Hunting and Fishing Day. This occasion provides an excellent opportun...

  • September 2011 Testimony Before the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council

    • On Sept. 15, 2011, Sera Drevenak of the Pew Environment Group's South Atlantic Fish Conservation Campaign, appeared before the South Atlantic Fi...

  • House Measure Would Expand Homeland Security Powers, Waive Environmental Laws

    • (Great Falls Tribune) A controversial bill that would give the Department of Homeland Security unprecedented authority over federal lands within...

  • Opinion: Military Going Green to Save Lives, Money

    • (CNN) In 2010 alone, there were roughly 1,100 attacks on U.S. fuel convoys. This has cost the men and women of our armed forces dearly.

  • With a Gift from Google, Canadian Activists Get on the Map

    • (Globe and Mail) A forestry company that decided in 2005 to cut down 400 hectares of redwood forest had no idea that its toughest opposition wou...

  • From Barracks to Battlefield: Pew Report Looks at Clean Energy Innovation and America's Armed Forces

    • Nations that fail to innovate lose their economic edge. Militaries that stagnate risk their strategic advantage.

  • Agencies Criticize Farms in Valley: Study Finds Area is Prime Source for Bay Pollution

    • (News Leader) Two reports, one from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and one from the nonprofit Pew Environmental Group, blast Valley fa...

  • Statement for the Record of the House Natural Resources Committee Hearing on the President's National Ocean Policy

    • More than 2.3 million Americans earn a living that depends on the ocean and its resources. Yet the dozens of federal agencies whose work address...

  • Science Must Guide Offshore Arctic Conservation, Development

    • Science, not politics, needs to guide decision-making in America’s extreme, remote, and fragile Arctic Ocean. If we are to avoid irreparable har...

  • Cattle Station in the Northern Territory Handed Back to Traditional Owners

    • (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) A cattle station in the Northern Territory has been purchased by the Federal Government and environmental ...

  • The Local Perspective

    • Indigenous knowledge is maturing as a science, says Henry P. Huntington, Pew Environment Group's Arctic science director. But more work is neede...

  • Australia Buys into Indigenous Land Management

    • (Eco-Business) Northern Australia has become the latest region to benefit from a growing international movement to put land stewardship back in ...

  • Warming Revives Dream of Sea Route in Russian Arctic

    • (New York Times) Rounding the northernmost tip of Russia in his oceangoing tugboat this summer, Capt. Vladimir V. Bozanov saw plenty of walruses...

  • Three Steps to Prepare for a Changing Arctic

    • Here are three steps the United States should take today to address the rapid changes already underway in the Arctic.

  • Obama to Block New Uranium-Mine Claims Near Grand Canyon

    • (McClatchy Newspapers) New uranium mining claims on 1 million acres around the Grand Canyon will be blocked for 20 years under a decision the Bu...

  • Grand Canyon Mining Ban Moves Forward

    • (Los Angeles Times) The Obama administration moved closer to adopting a 20-year ban on new mining claims on 1 million acres of land around the G...

  • 'Unearthly' Beauty Tops Jobs: Obama Freezes Mining Near Grand Canyon

    • (The Christian Monitor) Teddy Roosevelt can rest easy. The Obama administration on Wednesday formally unveiled a plan to ban new uranium and oth...

  • Clean Energy: U.S. Behind, but the Race is not Over

    • Once the leader in attracting overall investments, we’re now third behind China and Germany—and lag behind various countries on a variety of oth...

  • Brad Pitt, Matt Damon Give Krill a Star Turn

    • (Reuters) There are no small parts, only small actors, or so the old show-biz saying goes. Now there are big stars — Matt Damon and Brad Pitt — ...

  • National Security Demands Energy Innovation

    • Militaries have long used energy innovations to improve their operational capabilities. Today, the U.S. military is prioritizing energy efficien...

  • At Stanford, GOP Members Gird for Battle Against Fossil Fuels

    • (Stanford University News) The United States must reduce its consumption of fossil fuels not only for environmental reasons, but to improve its ...

  • Queenslanders Support Visionary Protection for Our Coral Sea

    • At a crucial time in the federal government’s marine planning process, a poll commissioned by the Queensland Conservation Council demonstrates s...

  • Daly River Station Returns to Aboriginal Groups

    • (Australian Geographic) Preservation of Aboriginal culture and the creation of jobs are rarely achieved at the same time - but, as a new partner...

  • Obama Cautiously Offers More Areas for Offshore Drilling in Alaska and Gulf of Mexico

    • (AP) The Obama administration cautiously offered up more areas in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska’s coast to oil and gas drilling Tuesday but ...

  • New US Offshore Oil Leasing Plan Includes Arctic

    • (Agence France-Presse) The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed a new plan for offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico and off the...

  • On Thin Ice

    • (Audubon Magazine) In the face of climate change and offshore drilling, biologists are tracking walruses to better understand their behavior and...

  • Fisheries Regulators OK Menhaden Limits

    • (AP) Fisheries regulators voted Wednesday to reduce by more than one-third the harvest of menhaden, a small fish that plays a big ecological rol...

  • Menhaden Catch Limited by Northeast Fishery Regulators

    • (Boston Globe) A small silver fish, menhaden has outsized importance in the sea, serving as sustenance for many larger fish and providing vital ...

  • Comments on the Caribbean Fishery Management Council's 2011 Annual Catch Limit Amendment

    • On November 10, 2011, Sera Drevenak and Holly Binns of the Pew Environment Group's Gulf of Mexico Fish Conservation Campaign offered their suppo...

  • Comments on Amendment 24 to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s Snapper Grouper Fishery Management Plan

    • On November 10, 2011, Sera Drevenak and Holly Binns of the Pew Environment Group's Gulf of Mexico Fish Conservation Campaign offered comments on...

  • Tennessee Wilderness Act Moves Closer to Passage

    • (Nooga) The Tennessee Wilderness Act, a bill that would protect nearly 20,000 acres in the Cherokee National Forest, reached another milestone t...

  • Nations Focus on Saving Bluefin Tuna

    • (AP) An international conference in Turkey on Friday focused on how to monitor illegal catches of Atlantic bluefin tuna, which has been severely...

  • Border Bill Pits Security Against the Environment

    • (Minneapolis Star Tribune) The Border Patrol would gain unprecedented authority over Minnesota's environmental landmarks on our northern border,...

  • Comments for the Gulf of Mexico Fish Conservation Campaign

    • On November 14, 2011 the Pew Environment Group's Gulf of Mexico Fish Conservation campaign offered its support for gag rule changes aligning reg...

  • Tuna Fishing Countries Vow to Protect Shark

    • (Agence France-Presse) Countries involved in bluefin tuna fishing have decided to do more to protect a species of shark against collateral killi...

  • Her Deepness Drops in and Warns of Growing Threat to the Oceans

    • (Sydney Morning Herald) When men were going to the moon, Sylvia Earle was leading the first team of female aquanauts to the bottom of the ocean,...

  • Fishermen All at Sea Over Marine Reserves

    • (The Australian) The federal government will create the world's largest marine reserve in the Coral Sea, defying intensifying discontent in the ...

  • Australia to Create World's Largest Marine Reserve in the Coral Sea

    • (The Daily Mail) The Australian government has announced plans to create the world's largest marine nature reserve covering an area the size of ...

  • Save Wild Forests, Save Migratory Birds

    • As the forests of the East changed this fall into their seasonal reds and oranges, a remarkable migration of birds headed south. About 30 millio...

  • One Woman Takes a Brave Stand Against Factory Farming

    • (O Magazine) This is Lynn's home, and she had always taken an almost personal pride in its beauty. But that changed 14 years ago when large fact...

  • Are We Really Ready to Drill in America's Arctic Ocean?

    • After last year's BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, President Obama promised cleaner, safer energy development. Yet the administration is on the br...

  • A View From the Eagle's Eye

    • Each year, millions of birds journey from Alaska and the Arctic into the Lower 48 states and back again. In the midst of these epic migrations, ...

  • Editorial: Flawed Border Bill Should Be Rejected

    • (The Star Tribune) Debate over border security and illegal immigration is a constant in GOP presidential debates. Now, a Utah congressman wants ...

  • America Needs Clean Energy Support

    • In today’s competitive global economy, technological innovation is essential to long-term U.S. economic security, and the energy sector should b...

  • Protection Plan Fails to Satisfy Reef Campaigners

    • (ABC Radio Australia) The Australian Government has released its draft plan for protecting Australian reefs, but the Protect Our Coral Sea Coali...

  • Environmental Claims For Farmed Fish Don't Hold Up To Scrutiny

    • (NPR) A study released this week by the University of Victoria's Seafood Ecology Research Group found that most eco-labels on farmed seafood don...

  • Cleaning the Chesapeake

    • (Chemical & Engineering News) After more than 25 years of federal, state, and local efforts to improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, most...

  • Canada Releases Rules for Offshore-Arctic Drilling

    • (Wall Street Journal) Canada's national energy regulator released rules for offshore oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean Thursday, clearing...

  • Contesting the Rules of Roadlessness

    • (Boulder Weekly) Six years ago, in the interest of protecting Colorado’s pristine wilderness areas while the national roadless area rule was bei...

  • NEB Set to Allow Alternative for Relief-Well Rule in Arctic

    • (Globe and Mail) The federal energy regulator is easing a controversial regulation that oil companies say would prevent exploration in the ice-p...

  • Fresh Warnings on Seabed Mining

    • On December 19, Pew Environment Group Manager of Conservation Partnerships in Australia Patrick O’Leary was interviewed in a segment broadcast b...

  • With Federal Green Light, Shell Hits the Gas on Arctic Plans

    • (E&E News) In a sign that the Obama administration is willing to clear the regulatory decks for oil drilling in Alaska's remote Arctic waters, t...

  • A Call to Protect Humble Fish, for Seabirds' Sake

    • (The New York Times) When people talk about the environmental effects of salmon aquaculture, they usually focus on water pollution and the sprea...

  • Australians Urged to Support World's Largest Marine Park

    • In this media release Professor Terry Hughes and Professor Bob Pressey of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies urge Australians to...

  • Chicken Manure Adds to Chesapeake Bay Pollution, Group Says

    • (WTOP) An environmental group is warning that too much manure is a threat to the Chesapeake Bay, and it wants more standards at the state level....

  • Good News Outweighs Bad for Canada's Boreal Forest in 2011: Report

    • (Vancouver Sun) In an unexpected departure from year-end environmental doomsaying, a leading Canadian conservation group has compiled a Top 10 l...

  • Editorial: Tennessee Wilderness Act Would Permanently Protect 19,556 Acres

    • A bill now in Congress would place 19,556 acres of Tennessee located in Cherokee National Forest in a permanent wilderness area. In addition to ...

  • New Marine Reserve Could Bolster Queensland Tourist Numbers, Say DialAFlight

    • (MarketWire) After news emerged in late November that the Australian government is planning to establish the world's largest marine reserve in t...

  • Canada's Boreal Forest: Why Does it Need Protection?

    • (Ecopolitology) If you’re wondering what a boreal forest is, you’re probably not alone. It is comprised of forested lands in the northern hemisp...

  • U.S. to Limit Mining Near Grand Canyon

    • (Associated Press) The Interior Department is moving forward with a plan to ban new mining claims on 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon, even...

  • Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Claims to be Banned as Obama Tries to Protect National Treasure

    • (Daily Mail) The Obama administration is moving forward with a controversial plan to ban new uranium mining claims on 1 million acres near the G...

  • Obama Holds Strong to Protect Grand Canyon from Uranium Mining

    • (The Guardian) The Obama administration is set to give protection to one of the world's natural wonders, by banning uranium mining on 1m square ...

  • Stunning Snaps of Marine Life in the Coral Sea

    • (The Australian) An exhibition featuring breathtaking photographs of marine life in Australia's Coral Sea has gone on show. There are 25 stunnin...

  • New 20-Year Ban on Mining Near Grand Canyon Finalized

    • (AP) Fending off pressure from the mining industry and congressional Republicans, the Obama administration is moving forward with a plan to ban ...

  • MSC Sustainable Certification for PNA Tuna a Historic Date, PNA Director Says

    • (PNA Tuna) January 2012 is historic for the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) and for our Pacific region. In gaining a globally recognized ec...

  • Obama Bans Uranium Mining Around Grand Canyon

    • (Reuters) The Obama administration banned new uranium mining claims around the Grand Canyon for the next 20 years, a move hailed by conservation...

  • U.S. Bans New Grand Canyon Uranium-Mining Claims

    • (LA Times) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Monday a final decision to impose 20-year ban on new mining claims on 1 million acres surrou...

  • What's the Coral Sea without Coral?

    • (Discovery News) The Coral Sea, off the coast of northwestern Australia, is home to some of the healthiest tropical marine ecosystems left on Ea...

  • Responsible Leadership in Arctic in 2012

    • (National Journal) Oil prices will be at the center of our nation’s energy debate in 2012. Some will use rising prices as an opening to push for...

  • Marine Reserve Falls Short: Taylor

    • (Brisbane Times) Underwater filmmaker Valerie Taylor releases a new video of the Coral Sea, saying a proposed Marine Reserve does not go far eno...

  • Coral Sea Protections Fall Short: Taylor

    • (Nine News) Under the plan, released by federal Environment Minister Tony Burke in November, the world's largest marine park would be created in...

  • Veteran Filmmaker Calls for Realistic Coral Sea Conservation

    • (Radio Australia) Somebody who can remember what the Pacific Ocean was like before the exploitation of the tuna stocks is legendary underwater f...

  • Grand Canyon Safe from Uranium Mining

    • (Living on Earth) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar recently signed a 20 year moratorium on mining for uranium near the Grand Canyon National Park....

  • Ohio Farms Flush with Manure

    • (The Columbus Dispatch) Under the best conditions, raising livestock is a dirty, smelly business. And right now in Ohio, the conditions are far ...

  • Putting Fish Over Politics
    • (Miami Herald) Remarkable things can happen when key stakeholders and leaders in Washington find common ground for a common good.
  • The Future We Want for the Ocean

    • The Pew Environment Group welcomes the circulation of the zero draft by the Co-Chairs of the Bureau for United Nations Conference on Sustainable...

  • Obama Admin Says New Forest Rules Stress Science

    • (Associated Press) The Obama administration says new rules to manage nearly 200 million acres of national forests will protect watersheds and wi...

  • Hundreds of Scientists Ask Obama to Halt Drilling

    • (Greenwire) A group of 573 scientists today released a letter to President Obama asking him to stop oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic waters until...

  • Court Victory Holds CAFO Accountable for Water Pollution

    • (Ecocentric) In a precedent-setting decision earlier this month that received scant national coverage, a Washington State judge ordered a CAFO (...

  • Putting Americans Back to Work With Clean Energy

    • In his State of the Union address, President Obama pledged to "double down on a clean energy industry that's never been more promising." Indeed,...

  • Elephant Solution Proposed for Australian Bush

    • (Australian Broadcasting Network) Australia could introduce large herbivores such as elephants as part of a radical biological solution to the p...

  • Jumbo Solution for Outback

    • (New Zealand Herald) Biologist David Bowman knew he was going to kick up a jumbo-sized storm with his latest idea for saving Australia's fragile...

  • EPA Readies CAFO Permit Manual

    • (Inside EPA) EPA is preparing to issue a manual “in the very near future” highlighting what the agency considers to be the best available techni...

  • State Goes Its Own Way to Regulate Forest Roads

    • (The New York Times) A road into the piney woods can be fraught with consequences. That was the premise, more than a decade ago, behind a Clinto...

  • McDonald's Vows to Help End Use of Sow Crates

    • (The New York Times) The McDonald’s Corporation said on Monday that it would begin working with its pork suppliers to phase out the use of so-ca...

  • Scientists Want More Protection for Australia's Coral Sea

    • (Radio Australia) More than 300 scientists from around the world have signed a consensus statement warning the Australian government that its pr...

  • U.S. Tentatively Approves Shell Spill Plan for New Arctic Drilling

    • (New York Times) In an important step toward ultimate approval of new oil drilling off the North Slope of Alaska, the Interior Department on Fri...

  • Oil Drilling In Arctic Nears Reality: Shell Emergency Plan OKd

    • (Los Angeles Times) One of the last significant hurdles to offshore oil drilling in the Arctic has been cleared with approval of a plan for deal...

  • Colorado Officials Push for Forest-Road Rule

    • (Denver Post) Colorado officials are making an intense final push to establish their own rule for managing the last roadless national forests in...

  • Deadline for Draft Coral Sea Protection Plan Ends at Midnight

    • (Radio Australia) The deadline for submissions to the Australian government's draft plan for protecting the Coral Sea closes at midnight tonight...

  • Protecting the Coral Sea

    • (Australian Geographic) The breathtaking, iconic beauty of the Coral Sea has been captured in a new exhibition, called 'Our Coral Sea: Our Ocean...

  • Protecting Alaska's Arctic Marine Mammals
    • Offshore from Alaska's North Slope, Arctic sea ice is a crucial part of the habitat for marine wildlife including polar bears, walruses and seals. ...
  • Comments on Science-Based Spawning Protections and Implementation of Accountability Measures

    • On March 3, 2012, Sera Drevenak and Holly Bins of the Pew Environment Group’s South Atlantic Fish Conservation Campaign wrote to offer comments ...

  • Shell Oil Rig Set for Landmark Alaska Journey

    •  (LA Times) Amid the tangle of towering steel, heavy cranes and overcast skies of Seattle's busy commercial shipyards, Shell Oil's massive Kullu...

  • No Seabed Mining in NT for Three Years

    • (Nine News) The Northern Territory government says no seabed mining will occur in its coastal waters until at least 2015.

  • More Consultation Needed on Lancaster Sound, Inuit Say

    • (Postmedia News) The federal government should consult with Inuit who live in the High Arctic before finalizing the boundaries of a National Mar...

  • The Agrarian Myth and Industrial Reality of Animal Agriculture

    • (Philadelphia Inquirer) When most of us think of farms and farming, we conjure a fairly idyllic scene: fresh air; lush pastures; quaint, rustic ...

  • Combined Heat and Power Cuts Costs, Emissions

    • (Midwest Energy News) At some point every summer, the wastewater treatment plant in Albert Lea, Minnesota, usually gets a phone call from its ga...

  • More [Good] News about [Bad] Gestation Crates

    • (New York Times) Another significant victory in the fight to ban sow gestation crates: Compass Group USA—whose U.K. parent company is the larges...

  • National Geographic Revives Debate Over Imperiled Bluefin Tuna in New Show

    • (The Daily Beast) Wicked Tuna, a new series on hunting the endangered fish, is a mashup of reality TV and conservation.

  • Fahy Questions Idea of Licencing Foreign Fishing Boats, Calls for a Marine Protection Area

    • (The Royal Gazette) Government is being called upon to turn its Exclusive Economic Zone into a Marine Protected Area, if it wants to protect the...

  • Dogs Take Lead in Sniffing Out Arctic Oil

    • (The Guardian) When it comes to drilling for oil in the harsh and unpredictable Arctic, Shell has gone to the dogs, it seems. A dachshund and tw...

  • Whales Exposed to Seismic Tests

    • (Adelaide Now) BP has been carrying out potentially dangerous seismic testing for oil and gas reserves in the Great Australian Bight Marine Park...

  • SA Group Fears Whales Death

    • (The West Australian) Rare whales could die if resources giant BP doesn't stop seismic testing at night in the Great Australian Bight, an enviro...

  • Increasing Pressure to Harvest Small Fish Worries Scientists

    • (Seattle Times) As ocean scientists probe what ails some of the largest creatures in the sea, a wave of new research is urging them to look at t...

  • Is the Northwest Sardine Fishery Collapsing?

    • (Ecotrope) Two fishery scientists have predicted a collapse in the West Coast sardine population based on several factors that parallel the fish...

  • Cast Out

    • (The Australian) The scene in north Queensland reflects the mood Australia-wide of a reform-fatigued fishing fleet that has endured a string of ...

  • Marine Park Scales Back Fishing

    • (The Australian) One of the few places where scuba divers can take the plunge into a frenzy of feeding sharks, Osprey Reef is widely considered ...

  • 4.6 Million Birds Living on Our Wetlands

    • (The Courier-Mail) The first national count of waterbirds and wetlands - thought to be the world's largest aerial survey - has found more than 4...

  • VIDEO: 8th Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission Tasked with Tuna Conservation

    • (Guam News) Delegates from 25 member governments are on Guam for the 8th regular meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission...

  • Call for Asia Pacific Tuna Nations to Save the Sharks

    • (Radio Australia) Environment organisations are calling on nations of the Western Pacific to take action a major tuna conservation meeting in Gu...

  • Pew Environment Group’s Advice to the Scientific and Statistical Committee Concerning Warsaw Grouper and Speckled Hind Protections

    • The Council has asked for the input of its SSC as it develops protections for Warsaw grouper and speckled hind.

  • Some Say New England Herring at Risk from Trawlers

    • (AP) New England's historic fishing industry doesn't spare much of its romance for the herring.

  • Tuna Conservation Talks in Guam Collapse

    • (Radio Australia) The negotiations between Pacific Islands nations and the United States, Europe, China, Japan and others - failed to find commo...

  • Editorial: The Navy's Case for Green Energy

    • The list of benefits from the U.S. military's green energy initiative begins, simply, with this: It'll save lives.

  • Pew Responds to Column in The West Australian

    • Tom Wathen, deputy director at Pew Environment Group, responds to a column published in The West Australian on March 24, 2012 that was critical ...

  • Senator Patterson's Allegations “Completely False,” Pew Group Says

    • Josh Reichert, Managing Director of Pew Environment Group, responds to a Nunatsiaq News article critical of Pew's work in the Canadian Arctic.

  • Campaign for More Protection of the Coral Sea

    • (Radio Australia) The Protect our Coral Sea coalition in Australia continues to garner support, with a group of highly acclaimed Queenslanders j...

  • US Grabs Lead Over China in Clean Energy Race

    • (AFP) The United States has regained the lead in the clean energy race, investing $48 billion last year to surpass China, which held the world's...

  • U.S. Leads in Clean Power Investment -- For Now

    • (CNN) Federal support for renewable power helped the United States reclaim from China the title of the world's biggest investor in clean energy,...

  • Renewable Energy Investment Bounces Back after 2010 Slump

    • (The Guardian) Investment in clean energy in the UK bounced back last year after its 2010 slump, the respected US-based Pew charitable trust has...

  • Clean Energy Investments in India Jump to $10.2 Billion

    • (Indian Express) Becoming the second fastest growing clean energy market among the G-20 nations, India attracted investments worth USD 10.2 bill...

  • Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2011 Edition: Country Fact Sheets

    • The investment and finance data presented in the Pew Clean Energy Program's new report, Who's Winning the Clean Energy Race? 2011 Edition (PDF),...

  • US Tops Global Clean Energy Investment Rankings

    • (BBC News) The US has regained top spot from China as the biggest investor in clean energy in 2011, according to global rankings.

  • Pew Responds to Cairns Post Letter to the Editor

    • Imogen Zethoven, Director of Pew's Coral Sea Campaign, responds to a letter published in the Cairns Post critical of Pew's efforts to protect th...

  • Good Work: Pew Environment Group in Canada

    • Josh Reichert, Managing Director of the Pew Environment Group, responds to the op-ed "NGOs should reveal funding sources."

  • Phone Briefing: Shark-Dive Tourism Worth Millions in Fiji

    • On Thursday, April 19, the Pew Environment Group, Australian Institute of Marine Science, the University of Western Australia and the Coral Reef...

  • WA Govt Announce Kimberley Marine Park

    • (Sky News) The biggest humpback whale calving area in the southern hemisphere will be protected within a new marine park to be created on the Ki...

  • New Kimberley Marine Park to Protect Whales

    • (WA Today) Environmental groups have welcomed the announcement of a new marine park on the Kimberley coast, but warn that more needs to be done ...

  • WA's Kimberley Gets New Marine Park

    • (The Sydney Morning Herald) The biggest humpback whale calving area in the southern hemisphere will be protected within a new marine park to be ...

  • Marine Park Plan for Kimberley

    • (The West Australian) The State Government has announced it will create new marine park in the Kimberley.

  • Commercial Fishing Restrictions in Kimberley's Camden Sound Marine Park

    • (Perth Now) Commercial fishing will be phased out and recreational fishers required to release their catch in a new Kimberley marine park announ...

  • Trawlers Allowed in New Kimberley Marine Park

    • (ABC News) Conservation groups have heralded the State Government's announcement of Camden Sound Marine Park as a significant win for the Kimber...

  • Welcome Move to Safeguard World's Largest Humpback Sanctuary

    • (The Australian) Environmental groups have welcomed the announcement of a new Kimberley marine park covering the world's largest humpback whale ...

  • Scientists Urge Canada to Postpone Commercial Fishing in the Arctic

    • (The Globe and Mail) More than 2,000 scientists from 67 countries, including 551 from Canada, are calling for a moratorium on commercial fishing...

  • Leaders Urged to Impose Moratorium on Industrial Fishing in the Arctic

    • (Vancouver Sun) The leaders of the five Arctic coastal states — including Prime Minister Stephen Harper — are being urged by more than 2,000 sci...

  • Scientists Issue Call for Arctic Fisheries Plan

    • (Disovery News) More than 2,000 scientists from 67 nations have signed an open letter calling for the development of an international fisheries ...

  • Burger King Corp. Makes Industry-Leading Commitment to Enhance Animal Welfare Standards in its U.S. Supply Chain

    • (Market Watch) Burger King Corp. (BKC) today announced two industry-leading commitments that will enhance the animal welfare standards in its U....

  • Letter Re: Red Snapper State Consistency with Federal Regulations
    • On behalf of the Pew Environment Group’s Gulf of Mexico Fish Conservation Campaign, we offer our support for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conserva...
  • Pitcairn Islands Community Believe Marine Reserve Could Boost Tourism

    • (Radio New Zealand International) Residents of Pitcairn Island believe the establishment of what could be the world’s largest marine reserve in ...

  • International Conservation Group Says Strong Support for Pitcairn Islands Marine Reserve

    • (Radio New Zealand International) The international conservation organisation, Pew Environment Group, says it has strong support from the Pitcai...

  • Comments on the Proposed Rule for Amendment 24 to the Snapper Grouper Fishery Management Plan in the South Atlantic
    • On behalf of the Pew Environment Group, we are writing to support the immediate approval and timely implementation of Amendment 24 to the Snapper G...
  • Offshore Fishermen Find Hope in Snapper Ban Debate

    • One little phrase tucked into a straightforward agenda for a federal agency's June meeting in Orlando gives Florida's ...

  • Safeguarding the Arctic a Must

    • Marilyn Heiman responds to Michael Bromwich's blog What More Can Be Done to Ensure Safe Offshore Drilling? on NationalJournal.com.

  • Beaufort Charter Guides Buoyed by Potential Lift of Snapper Ban

    • Times have changed, Wally Phinney says, since he first opened his charter fishing business in Beaufort in 1983.

  • 2 Year-Old Ban on Fishing Red Snapper Could Be Eased

    • A 2-year-old ban on catching the prized red snapper in the Atlantic Ocean could be eased later this year if a federal panel agrees that the late...

  • Deep-Water Ban on Grouper, Snapper Comes to an End

    • A 16-month ban on fishing for several types of deep-water fish off the Florida Keys disappeared Thursday.

  • Governments Take Weak Stance on the Ocean

    • Susan Lieberman, director of international policy at the Pew Environment Group, issued the following statement today in response to the lack of ...

  • Do We Know Enough to Ensure Safe Arctic Drilling?

    • (New Scientist) For the oil and gas industry, the Arctic Ocean is the final frontier. Beneath the ocean floor lies an estimated 90 billion barre...

  • Letter to Senate Armed Services Committee, Pew Calls on Senate to Support Alternative Fuels

    • On behalf of the Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate, I am writing to urge you to support the Department of Defense’s (DOD) eff...

  • Overwhelming Response for Coral Sea Protection Push

    • (Radio Australia) Almost half a million Australians say they want more protection for the Coral Sea - and those behind the campaign say its one ...

  • Oregon Designates Network of Marine Reserves

    • Landmark legislation signed by Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber designates three marine reserves and protected areas off Cape Falcon, Cascade Head...

  • Pew Responds to Op-Ed in Panama City News Herald
    • Holly Binns responds to an op-ed published in the Panama City News Herald on May 14, 2012 that was critical of Pew's efforts to end overfishing in ...
  • Senate Panel is Asked to Reject Biofuel Restrictions

    • (Detroit News) Advocates of biofuels urged the Senate Armed Services Committee to reject efforts to restrict the Defense Department's use of bio...

  • Editorial: A Good Start On the Way To a Coherent Energy Policy

    • (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ) There's been a sighting this spring of that rarest of birds in Washington: a national energy bill. The bill by Sen...

  • Senate Panel Cuts Off Navy’s Biofuel Buys

    • (Wired) The Navy’s ambitious renewable-energy plans aren’t sunk quite yet. But they took a major hit Thursday, when the Senate Armed Services Co...

  • DoD Can Lead The Way On Energy Security

    • Today the Senate Armed Services Committee voted to restrict efforts by the Department of Defense (DOD) to reduce its dependence on foreign oil. ...

  • Senate Armed Services Committee Approves Anti-Biofuel Amendments

    • (Biodiesel Magazine) On May 24 the Senate Committee on Armed Services completed the markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal ...

  • EU Fishing Reforms Face Weakening

    • (BBC) Talks on Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform are seeing important changes in moves to eliminate discards, reduce fishing fleets and rebui...

  • Shell Poised for Alaska Prospects

    • (Alaska Business Monthly) Royal Dutch Shell PLC is poised to drill for oil this summer in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska after spending nearly $4 b...

  • As Regulators Meet, Fishing Boats Thumb Their Noses

    • (New York Times) Talk about timing. As American and European fisheries officials met this week in Brussels to talk about, among other things, th...

  • Doubling Industrial Energy Efficiency
    • Each year, America’s utilities and factories send enough heat up their chimneys to power all of Japan annually. But with proven technologies, we ca...
  • Comments Regarding the Interim Rule for Gray Triggerfish
    • The Pew Environment Group submitted comments regarding temporary rule changes for Gulf gray triggerfish.
  • New Channel Launches to Broadcast About the Ocean From the Rio+20 Earth Summit

    • A new multi-media channel launches today (June 8th) in the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Providing rolling updates on ocean issues from tod...

  • RE: Comments on the Development of Comprehensive Ecosystem-based Amendment 3 and the Potential Opening of the Red Snapper Fishery
    • The Pew Environment Group offered comments for consideration by the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council regarding the development of alternat...
  • Obama's Wilderness Legacy Remains Uncertain

    • (The Washington Post) President Obama’s wilderness record remains largely unwritten. He has declared two historic sites, totaling less than 15,0...

  • Marine Protection Draft Maps Released

    • (9 News) Areas under consideration for marine protection include a vast area of the Coral Sea, off Queensland, which would join up with the Grea...

  • Congress Takes Aim at Green Pentagon Programs
    • (On Point) The U.S. military is the country’s number one energy consumer. All those warships, planes, Humvees and bases drink a lot of oil. The Pen...
  • Marine Reserves in Australia, California Gather Steam

    • (Washington Post) The Australian government announced Thursday that it is creating the world’s largest network of marine reserves, a patchwork o...

  • Australia to Create World's Largest Marine Reserves

    • (USA Today) The Australian government says it will create the world's largest network of marine reserves, which will cover more than 1.1 million...

  • House Set to Waive Environmental Laws for Security Agency Along Border

    • (The Hill) The House is slated to vote next week on controversial legislation that would exempt the Department of Homeland Security from more th...

  • Video: Government Unveils Plan for Marine Park Network

    • (ABC News) Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has released a new plan for a huge network of marine parks around Australia.

  • Coral Sea Protected

    • (G Magazine) East of the Great Barrier Reef lies one of the last remaining intact tropical ecosystems in the world, and the Gillard government h...

  • Labor Set to Announce Massive Marine Reserves

    • (AAP) Fishing, oil and gas exploration are set to be limited when the federal government introduces a world-first network of marine reserves aro...

  • Australia to Announce Historic Ocean Protections

    • (Voxy) Australia is expected to announce an historic decision today to create the world's largest network of marine protected areas, including a...

  • Australia Limits Fishing, Oil, Gas Exploration in Oceans and Seas

    • (International Business Times) The creation of 44 marine parks across Australia will make about one-third of Australian waters off-limits to fis...

  • Fishery Council Votes to Lift Harvest Ban on Red Snapper

    • (TC Palm) Freshly caught red snapper is returning to the dinner table later this year.

  • Federal Panel OKs Plan to Allow Limited Red-Snapper Fishing

    • (Orlando Sentinel) For the first time in more than two years, anglers would be able to legally catch red snapper later this year under a plan ap...

  • Australia's New Marine Park Proposal Continues to Spark Controversy

    • (ABC News) There's been a mixed response from conservationists, and the fishing and tourism industries in Australia to a government proposal to ...

  • Fishers' Fury over Marine Parks Plan(2)

    • (The Advocate) The federal government faces a fight with the fishing industry over planned marine reserves.

  • Fishers' Fury Over Marine Parks Plan

    • (The Advocate) The federal government faces a fight with the fishing industry over planned marine reserves.

  • Marine Reserve Compensation 'A Drop in the Ocean'

    • (Sydney Morning Herald) Commercial fishermen are set to receive compensation of about $100 million to help them adjust to the establishment of t...

  • Red Snapper Fishing Set to Reopen after 2.5-year Moratorium

    • Holly Binns, a project director for the Pew Environment Group, issued the following statement today in response to the South Atlantic Fishery Ma...

  • Environment Group Worried for KI in Marine Parks Plan

    • (ABC News) A planned network of marine parks will include more areas off the South Australia coast.

  • Red Snapper Back on the Menu - Soon

    • (TC Palm) During a weekend in the not too distant future, the red snapper derby will begin.

  • Mini Snapper Seasons Proposed

    • (News-Journal) A brief red snapper fishing season is expected to begin in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast later this year, ending a two...

  • Alaska's Tongass Forest Sparks Battle Over Logging

    • (Reuters) Environmental advocates readied for battle in Congress this week over what they maintain is an erosion of protections for the biggest,...

  • Pew Reacts to Rio+20 Document

    • Negotiators meeting in Rio, Brazil at the Earth Summit known as Rio+20 have finalized a 49-page document which will now go to Heads of State.

  • Quebec Cheered, Ottawa Jeered at Global Green Gathering

    • (Globe and Mail ) While Canada is being condemned at a major international gathering on environmental protection and sustainable development in ...

  • Environmentalists Seek Protections for Unfished Species

    • (Santa Cruz Sentinel) Who cares about fish that no one seems to care about? Everybody, it seems.

  • Manitoba World Heritage Proposal Moves Forward

    • One of the world’s last remaining areas of intact southern boreal forest is a step closer to becoming a UNESCO World Heritage Site with the subm...

  • Rio+20 Earth Summit Results in Nonbinding Declaration with Moderate Goals

    • (Washington Post) The global environment summit concluding Friday, which drew nearly 100 world leaders and more than 45,000 other people to Rio ...

  • Progress on the Sidelines as Rio Conference Ends

    • (The New York Times) Burdened by low expectations, snarled by endless traffic congestion and shunned by President Obama, the United Nations Conf...

  • Salazar: U.S. to Open More of Arctic Ocean to Oil, Gas Drilling

    • (LA Times) Even as the first offshore drilling in the Arctic in nearly two decades is poised to get underway, Obama administration officials sai...

  • Salazar Announces ‘Targeted Leasing’ for Future Petroleum Lease Sales in Arctic Waters

    • (AP) A five-year offshore leasing plan to be announced later this week will include targeted Arctic waters off Alaska’s northern coast, Interior...

  • Shell Is Likely to Receive Permits for Oil Drilling Off Alaska

    • (New York Times) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday that it was “highly likely” that the agency would grant Shell permits to begin dril...

  • Calls for Arctic Policy Intensify as Shell Nears Final OK for Exploration

    • (E&E News) The prospect of oil exploration this summer in Alaska's northernmost waters is triggering calls for Washington to take a more compreh...

  • Ontario Implements Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement

    • Ontario is the first Canadian province to incorporate a groundbreaking agreement between the forest products industry and conservation groups fo...

  • Pew Responds to May 2012 Editorial in Sport Fishing Magazine
    • Lee Crockett responds to an editorial published in Sport Fishing Magazine in May 2012 that was critical of Pew's support for a protected marine par...
  • Is Arctic Oil Drilling Ready for Prime Time?

    • (National Journal) Is the United States ready to venture into a new frontier of offshore oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean?

  • Animal Waste, Waterways, and Drinking Water

    •  From the backyard grill to the picnic basket, Americans seem to have a love affair with meat and poultry. To supply that demand, livestock prod...

  • Recent Mishaps Raise Doubts About Arctic Drilling Safety

    • (Huffington Post) Oil industry plans to Congress Must Act on Clean Energy

      • In 2011, for the first time in several years, the United States led the world by investing more than $48 billion in clean energy. The clean ener...

    • Plan Opens Over Half of Alaska Reserve to Drilling

      • (WSJ) The Obama administration proposed opening up 12 million acres of Alaska's 23 million-acre National Petroleum Reserve for oil and natural-g...

    • Commets on Amendment 37 to the Reef Fish Fishery Management Plan

      • As indicated by the 2011 update assessment and acknowledged by NOAA Fisheries Service1, the rebuilding plan for gray triggerfish implemented in ...

    • Comments Regarding Amendment 37 to the Reef Fish Fishery Management Plan
      • The following comments were presented to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council regarding Amendment 37 to the Reef Fish Fishery Management P...
    • Testimony of Chad Hanson before the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, Aug. 2012

      • The Pew Environment Group urges the Council to move expeditiously to finalize Amendment 37 so that the gray triggerfish rebuilding plan can get ...

    • Pew Responds to Letter to the Editor in Sail World, Australia

      • Imogen Zethoven responds to a letter published in the Sail World, Australia on Monday, August 20 that was critical of Pew's efforts to prote...

    • Shell to Start Work on Arctic Wells

      • (Financial Times) Royal Dutch Shell has been given preliminary permission to start drilling in the Arctic, raising hopes that it will be able to...

    • Course Correction: Saving Black Sea Bass After Decades of Failure

      • Thirty years ago, scientists discovered fishermen were catching black sea bass faster than the fish could reproduce. Continued overfishing drove...

    • Energy Security vs. Environment in Alaska

      • (New York Times) While the Marcellus Shale in New York and Pennsylvania and the Bakken Shale in North Dakota are trigger points in the world of ...

    • Lawsuit Seeks Release of Arctic Offshore Safety Data

      • (Cordoba Times) A lawsuit filed Aug. 30 in federal court in Anchorage seeks release of testing data that would shed some light on whether an inc...

    • Arctic Frontier Opens as Shell Begins Drilling in Chukchi Sea
      • (Fuel Fix) Shell began boring its first well in the Chukchi Sea in more than two decades on Sunday, kicking off what company executives anticipate ...
    • Ice-Breaking: U.S. Oil Drilling Starts as Nations Mull Changed Arctic

      • (National Geographic) On August 27, after a scorching summer of record-breaking drought and heat across the U.S., scientists reported that summe...

    • Testimony of Holly Binns Before the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, Sept. 2012
      • Holly Binns, director of Pew's Southeast and U.S. Caribbean Fishery Conservation Campaigns, recently provided testimony to the South Atlantic Fishe...
    • Shell's Setback Highlights Environmental Risks of Drilling in Arctic Waters
      • (Audubon Magazine) Shell has stopped drilling for oil in the Arctic—for now. After an oil containment system was damaged on Saturday, the company s...
    • Policy Statement: Oceans and the Law of the Sea Resolution, October 2012
      • The first round of the 2012 United Nations Informal Negotiations on the Oceans and Law of the Sea Resolution will take place 1-5 October.
    • Policy Statement: Sustainable Fisheries Resolution, November 2012
      • The Pew Environment Group urges the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to honor countries’ universal commitment to achieving sustainable global...
    • High Court Rejects Challenge to Roadless Rule
      • (Seattle Times) Environmental groups hailed the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of an appeal challenging a federal rule that bars development on 50 ...
    • Fair Share for Clean Water
      • An editorial by The Frederick News-Post ("Cost of the bay," Sept. 7) raised a good point regarding the need for all neighboring states to share the...
    • Pew Responds to Article in the Carteret County (NC) News-Times
      • Peter Baker responds to an article published in the Carteret County (NC) News-Times about menhaden stock.
    • Fisheries Rule Could Limit Scientific Access to Data
      • (The New York Times) A draft rule proposed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration may limit public access to fisheries data collect...
    • Public Hearing Draft for Amendment 37 to the Reef Fish Fishery Management Plan
      • Please accept these comments on behalf of the Pew Environment Group regarding the Public Hearing Draft to Amendment 37 to the Reef Fish Fishery Man...
    • Framework Action to Set the 2013 Gag Recreational Fishing Season and Modify the February-March Shallow-Water Grouper Closed Season
      • Please accept these comments on behalf of the Pew Environment Group regarding the Public Hearing Draft for the Framework Action to set the 2013 Gag...
    • Shell Learning about the Arctic the Hard Way
      • (Anchorage Daily News) On an all-but-invisible horizon, light gray mist meets dark gray water. Tiny, dry snowflakes and ice crystals swirl across t...
    • Press Briefing: International Meeting on Tuna, Sharks and Illegal Fishing
      • Experts from Pew provide an overview of the key issues relating to bluefin tuna, sharks and illegal fishing.
    • Fisheries Nations Set to Discuss Bluefin Tuna

      • 2012 11 10DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After defeating a proposal in 2010 to ban the export of an endangered fish that is a key ingredient...

    • Arctic Project Carries Alaska-Size Challenges
      • Even if Shell strikes oil in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, it could be at least a dozen years – and billions upon billions of dollars – before a s...
    • European Commission Exposes Countries that Aid Illegal Fishing
      • The Pew Environment Group commends the European Union for its latest effort to stop illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. On Nov. 15,...
    • Australia Creates World's Biggest Marine Park
      • (The Telegraph) About a million square miles of ocean will be proclaimed reserves today in a bid by the Gillard Government to limit fishing and oil...
    • Letter from Scientists to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Regarding Menhaden Management
      • A group of 94 concerned scientists sent the following letter to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASFMC) regarding the management of...
    • Media Interview with Imogen Zethoven
      • Global Ocean Legacy Coral Sea director Imogen Zethoven is interviewed by Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s News 24 about the Australian governm...
    • Re: Comments on Final Approval of CE-BA 3, Amendment 28 and Regulatory Amendment 19
      • The Pew Environment Group issued the following comments to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council regarding final approval of the Comprehens...
    • Press Briefing: Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission

      • On Tuesday, Nov. 27, the Pew Environment Group hosted a media phone briefing on the upcoming meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisherie...

    • Comments Re: Consistent Regulations for South Atlantic Black Sea Bass and Gulf Gag Grouper
      • On Dec. 3, 2012, Holly Binns and Chad Hanson of the Pew Environment Group delivered the following testimony to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conser...
    • Testimony to the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council: Data Collection Measures, Red Snapper and Proposed MPAs
      • On Dec. 6, 2012, Holly Binns, director of the Pew Environment Group's Southeast and U.S. Caribbean Fish Conservation Campaigns, delivered the follo...
    • Why Uncertainty Matters in Managing the Arctic Ecosystem
      • (Alaksa Business Monthly) When it comes to energy and other development in the remote and challenging U.S. Arctic, science can be a particularly us...
    • Super Storm Sandy: Industrial Efficiency Technologies Kept the Lights On
      • During Super Storm Sandy, institutions in the Bronx, Manhattan, Salem, NJ and Danbury, CT, among others, continued operations uninterrupted because...
    • Lost in the Wilderness? Maybe Not
      • (Politico) While our nation’s political leaders grapple with major tax and funding matters, more than two dozen bills to save some of the nation’s ...
    • Statement by Phyllis Cuttino, Director, Pew Clean Energy Program, Supporting the Extension of the Production Tax Credit for Wind
      • We applaud the wind industry and Congress for working together on an extension of the production tax credit.
    • Arctic Infrastructure Needed for Resource Development and Delivery
      • (Alaska Business Monthly) Offshore drilling in Alaska’s Outer Continental Shelf became a reality when Royal Dutch Shell began drilling exploratory ...
    • Critics Say Grounding Shows Arctic Drilling Danger
      • (Huffington Post) The grounding of a petroleum drilling ship on a remote Alaska Island has refueled the debate about oil exploration in the
    • Shell Oil Rig Runs Aground in Alaska
      • (Washington Post) A drilling rig that Shell planned to use off Alaska’s Arctic coast ran aground in a storm Monday night, after the crew had been r...
    • Environmentalists, U.S. House Members Question Kulluk Grounding
      • (KTUU) The grounding of the Kulluk has prompted a national environmental group to question Shell Alaska’s preparedness for Arctic drilling operations.
    • Coast Guard to Probe Stranded Shell Rig
      • (Financial Times) The US Coast Guard is sending a team to Alaska to investigate how Royal Dutch Shell’s Kulluk rig came to run aground on an island...
    • Shell Drilling Rig Refloated in Alaska
      • (Finacial Times) The Royal Dutch Shell drilling rig that ran aground in heavy seas off the south coast of Alaska a week ago has been successfully r...
    • Problems Prompt Federal Review of Arctic Drilling Operations
      • (LA Times) After a series of problems plagued the debut of offshore oil drilling in the U.S. Arctic, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Tuesday ordered...
    • Drilling Rig's Thick Hull Helps Prevent Oil Spill
      • (NPR) A Shell Oil drilling rig has been pulled of the rocks, where it washed up a week ago during a storm. It has been towed to a bay where divers ...
    • Shell's Arctic Drilling Plan Under Threat After US Government Orders Review
      • (The Guardian) The Obama administration ordered a sweeping review of Shell's plans to drill in the Arctic on Tuesday, after a series of mishaps end...
    • Arctic Standards Urged for Oil Drilling in Forbidding Region
      • (Fuel Fix) Engineers, oil industry representatives and environmentalists on Wednesday urged federal regulators to adopt a suite of baseline standar...
    • Letter to the White House: Federal Investment in Energy Innovation Will Help U.S. Businesses
      • In a letter to President Obama, Speaker of the House John Boehner, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Senat...
    • Testimony at the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council Regarding Red Snapper
      • On Thursday, Feb. 7, Chad Hanson, a science and policy analyst for The Pew Charitable Trusts, spoke before the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Co...
    • Pew Testimony Before the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Regarding Gulf Gag and Gray Triggerfish Regulations
      • On Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, Pew's Sharon McBreen spoke before the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission regarding state consistency wi...
    • Shell Calls off 2013 Arctic Drilling
      • (Houston Chronicle) Shell is calling off its plans to resume hunting for oil in Arctic waters this summer after a problem-plagued year that ended w...
    • Shell Halts Arctic Drill Plans for 2013
      • (CNN) Royal Dutch Shell says it will "pause" its closely watched project to drill for oil off the Alaskan coast this year, instead spending 2013 pr...
    • Swift Reaction as Shell Suspends 2013 Arctic Alaska Offshore Drilling
      • (Alaska Dispatch) After a spate of mishaps and mechanical issues that beleaguered Royal Dutch Shell's bid at offshore drilling in Arctic Alaska, th...
    • Shell Pause in Arctic Drilling Spurs Call for U.S. Review
      • (Bloomberg) Royal Dutch Shell's pause in Arctic oil drilling after last year’s equipment mishaps should prompt a U.S. review of drilling procedures...
    • One Troubled Rig and the Future of Arctic Oil Drilling
      • (Popular Mechanics) Shell announced this week that it would halt Arctic oil drilling in 2013 following a series of mishaps—most notoriously, the gr...
    • Interior Department: ‘Shell Screwed Up’ Drilling in Arctic
      • (The Modesto Bee) Shell failed to oversee contractors that were central to its bungled efforts to explore for oil in the Arctic waters off Alaska l...
    • Shell Barred from Returning to Drill for Oil in Arctic Without Overhaul
      • (The Guardian) Shell "screwed up" drilling for oil in Arctic waters and will not be allowed back without a comprehensive overhaul of its plans, the...
    • U.S. Wants More Details Before Shell Can Resume Arctic Drilling
      • (Fox Business) Royal Dutch Shell PLC will need to provide more detailed plans before it can make another attempt to drill off the coast of Alaska, ...
    • Interior Dept. Warns Shell on Arctic Drilling
      • (The New York Times) The Shell Oil Company must provide a detailed plan addressing numerous safety and operational issues that plagued its efforts ...
    • Pew Testimony in Opposition to SB 1029
      • Velma Smith of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ campaign to reform animal agriculture testified before the Maryland State Senate on the Maryland Agricult...
    • US Gets Tough on Arctic Oil Drilling
      • (The New Scientist) Drilling for oil in the Arctic could get a lot tougher. The US is considering strict rules to protect the fragile polar environ...
    • Pew Responds to Article in the Tampa Bay Times
      • Holly Binns responds to an article from the Tampa Bay Times about Florida's use of Gulf oil spill restoration funds.
    • Letter: Congratulations to the Department of Energy
      • On March 25, 2013, Phyllis Cuttino, director of The Pew Charitable Trusts' clean energy program, wrote to David Danielson, assistant secretary, ene...
    • Testimony to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council egarding Charter 'Days at Sea' Pilot
      • On April 8, 2013, Chad Hanson, senior science and policy analyst on Gulf of Mexico fish conservation for The Pew Charitable Trusts, testified befor...
    • Pacific Fishery Management Council Announces Adoption of New Fishery Ecosystem Plan
      • After over two years of work, the Pacific Fishery Management Council adopted new fishery ecosystem plan.
    • ConocoPhillips Announces it will not Drill Exploratory Wells in US Arctic Waters in 2014

      • (Washington Post) ConocoPhillips Alaska announced Wednesday it will not drill in Arctic waters off Alaska’s northwest shore in 2014.

    • Testimony to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council
      • On Thursday, April. 18, 2013, Pew's Sharon McBreen spoke before the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council in support of investigating new ways ...
    • Pew Responds to Op-Ed in the the Rapid City Journal
      • Josh Reichert responds to an op-ed published April 8, 2013 in the Rapid City Journal which was critical of Pew's animal agriculture work.
    • Industrial Energy Efficiency
      • Combined heat and power, or CHP, provides the U.S. industrial sector with an economical, timely solution to the problem of energy use and cost, whi...
    • Improving Our Management of Forage Fish
      • Peter Baker, director of U.S. oceans, Northeast, spoke recently to fisheries experts from around the country about ways to improve the way we manag...