An alliance of 20 environmental groups, businesses, local officials and individuals came together Wednesday morning to fight offshore drilling. Held under a the barrage of rain outside of Langosta Lounge on the Asbury Park boardwalk, the event aimed to rally all New Jersey residents to attend the only public meeting being held in the state on […]

The Deal Lake Commission has joined forces with Clean Ocean Action [COA] to search for possible sources of human pathogen pollution within the Deal Lake watershed, Chairman Don Brockel announced in written news statement Monday. “This effort started months ago after hearing about the successful efforts of COA and the Environmental Canine Services [ECS] within the […]

One week before the world unites in protection of our oceans, President Donald Trump announced he would withdraw the United State’s commitment to the Paris Climate Accord. “It put our country at a very, very big disadvantage,” Trump said in his announcement. But, 25 companies including Microsoft Apple, Google, and Intel purchased a full page […]

Jersey shore native Margo Pellegrino is on a mission to raise awareness of the ocean’s declining state of affairs one paddle stroke at a time. The mother of two is in the midst of a two-year clean water paddle campaign from the Big Apple to the Big Easy. To date she has paddled over 5,000 […]

The Obama administration will remove drilling off the Atlantic Coast from its Oil and Gas Leasing program, according to a Tuesday announcement made by Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell. Jewell cited significant potential conflicts with other ocean uses such as the Department of Defense and commercial interests, current market dynamics, limited infrastructure, and opposition […]

With just three days’ notice, hundreds organized on the Asbury Park boardwalk in front of Langosta Lounge to protest the exploration for offshore oil and its potential to open the Atlantic Ocean to drilling for the first time in over 30 years. “Greeting from Asbury Park,” Mayor John Moor said as he opened the Sunday […]

More dangerous than any shark or Portuguese-Man-of-War, plastic straws are among the dirty dozen list of ocean debris on the rise. “The real monster out there in the marine environment is the plastics,” said Cindy Zipf, Clean Ocean Action Executive Director. According to COA statistics, there are more than 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic in […]