As we enter a new year, the International Marine Mammal Project is still hard at work laying out our plans and hopes to help save whales, dolphins, and their ocean homes.
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In 2017, the Republican-controlled Congress added an amendment to the President’s Tax Cut and Jobs Act, which opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. The Trump Administration is now working overtime to issue permits for an invasion of seismic testing and oil crews.
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On June 5, 2020, President Donald Trump, surrounded by New England fishermen and their prop lobster traps, opened the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. Unsurprisingly, environmentalists did not get an invite.
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The International Marine Mammal Project and Shark Stewards of Earth Island Institute plan to sue the federal government, should the Trump Administration attempt to illegally reinstate commercial fishing in the Marine National Monuments or shrink the boundaries of the monuments.
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