A dead humpback whale that was hauled out of Portland Harbor in Maine is secured onto a trailer on June 6, 2024. A landmark law passed more than 50 years ago to protect whales, dolphins and other ...

Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.'s longest-standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction. Conservative leaders feel they now ...

The Marine Mammal Protection Act, enacted in 1972, has prevented the extinction of marine mammal species in U.S. waters. Proposed legislation threatens to weaken the act by restricting scientific data ...

The legislation could be considered by the Natural Resources Committee in the coming weeks. The House Natural Resources Committee is set to discuss legislation to make big changes to the Marine Mammal ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Famous wildlife biologist and TV host Jeff Corwin was on Capitol Hill this week to fight changes lawmakers are considering to the ‘Marine Mammals Protection Act.’ “Time tested ...

October 11, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on Republicans Seek to Weaken U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act WASHINGTON, DC, October 11, 2025 (ENS) – On July 8, Congressman Nick Begich III, an Alaska ...

A dead gray whale that washed ashore in Baja California in 2020, during what NOAA called an "unusual mortality event" that affected whales all along their North American migration path. (Carolyn ...

A landmark law passed more than 50 years ago to protect whales, dolphins and other marine mammals in U.S. waters could be upended by amendments proposed on July 22 during a legislative hearing of the ...