Challenge to Speed Rule Threatens Right Whales with More Deadly Vessel Strikes
Undermining the rule will set a dangerous precedent that risks the survival of endangered right whales and countless other marine mammals and vulnerable species.

Undermining the rule will set a dangerous precedent that risks the survival of endangered right whales and countless other marine mammals and vulnerable species.
The Trump administration has taken aim at NOAA and the EPA. We’re ready to fight back.
A final Environmental Impact Statement issued for four dams on Maine’s lower Kennebec River ignores the best available science and could doom endangered Atlantic salmon to extinction while harming recovery of other sea-run fish.
Overfishing is not caused by the actions of an individual boat. It’s a systemic problem in which federal regulators may allow fish to be caught faster than they can replenish themselves.
The Atlantic Ocean shouldn’t be exploited for fossil fuels. CLF is ready to fight any attempt to start offshore oil drilling.
Conservation groups applaud a First Circuit Court of Appeals decision reinstating a 2024 National Marine Fisheries Service rule that protects critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from fishing gear entanglements — one of two major threats to the species’ survival and recovery.
In 2024 alone, four right whales, including two females and two dependent calves, died as the result of vessel strikes in US waters.
The Trump administration may try to attack our ocean, but we’re ready to fight back.
New research shines a light on Atlantic cod’s falling populations.
Open-ocean, finfish aquaculture might seem like an efficient alternative to traditional commercial fishing but these fish farms cause tremendous damage to New England’s environment.