NOAA has withdrawn vessel speed rule changes aimed at strengthening protections for North Atlantic right whales, drawing ...
After two years of debate and 90,000 public comments, NOAA withdrew a contentious boat speed rule aimed at Atlantic right ...
Shortly before Trump’s inauguration, a federal agency withdrew a proposal to protect North Atlantic right whales from vessel ...
The proposed changes, which they argued could hurt the fishing and boating industries and other related businesses.
An anti-offshore wind group is petitioning the federal government to establish a safe corridor for critically endangered ...
The withdrawal does not preclude NOAA from taking future action, including but not limited to initiating a new rule, to address ongoing lethal right whale vessel strikes. Legal disputes offshore ...
NOAA proposed a speed change to certain water vessels in order to aid the critically endangered right whale population.
Conservationists have pushed for additional right whale protections for decades. Now, they find themselves, and the whales ...
Federal regulators are abandoning a proposal to expand ocean speed limits that were designed to protect North Atlantic right whales. The whales, which give birth off Georgia’s coast in the winter, are ...
The rule was proposed in August 2022 with the goal of limiting the number of North Atlantic Right Whale deaths.