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US Bill Revives $1 Billion Annual Clean Shipping Fund

US Bill Revives $1 Billion Annual Clean Shipping Fund

US lawmakers have reintroduced the Next Generation Shipping Act, a bill that would establish a one billion dollar annual programme to accelerate clean shipping technologies and port infrastructure across the country. The…

Mon Jun 29 20266 min
Trump Opens 1.3 Million km² of Pacific Marine Monuments to Commercial Fishing in Unprecedented Rollback

Trump Opens 1.3 Million km² of Pacific Marine Monuments to Commercial Fishing in Unprecedented Rollback

US President Donald Trump signed an executive proclamation on 11 June 2026 rolling back commercial fishing protections across approximately 1.3 million square kilometres of Pacific marine national monuments, including po…

Mon Jun 22 20265 min
Fifteen Countries Sign Mombasa Declaration to Share Fisheries Data and Combat IUU Fishing

Fifteen Countries Sign Mombasa Declaration to Share Fisheries Data and Combat IUU Fishing

Fifteen countries from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe adopted the Mombasa Declaration on 17 June 2026 during the 11th Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa, Kenya, committing to advance global fisheries transparency a…

Fri Jun 19 20265 min
Lawmakers Fight to Stop Dismantling of $386M Ocean Observatory Network as NSF Proceeds With Instrument Removal

Lawmakers Fight to Stop Dismantling of $386M Ocean Observatory Network as NSF Proceeds With Instrument Removal

A bipartisan group of US senators and two Democratic House committees have sent letters demanding the National Science Foundation reverse its plan to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a network of more than 9…

Tue Jun 16 20265 min
US Deep-Sea Mining Regulations Called Bare Bones as Lease Sales Advance Without Adequate Oversight Framework

US Deep-Sea Mining Regulations Called Bare Bones as Lease Sales Advance Without Adequate Oversight Framework

Legal experts and the former director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management have warned that the regulatory framework governing deep-sea mining in US federal waters is outdated, lacks critical environmental and financ…

Thu Jun 11 20265 min
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