The organization's Marine Animal Rescue and Response Team was busier in the first nine months of 2024 than all of 2023, ...

Latest spate of whale deaths 'unprecedented,' but vessel strikes, entanglements are chief concern Since December, at least eight dead whales have washed ashore in Massachusetts, and five more have ...

The order reflects Trump's opposition to wind energy, stating that the consequences of onshore and offshore wind projects ...

NOAA has proposed new speed restrictions for boats across the East Coast that Gov. Maura Healey hopes will be amended.

Massachusetts politicians were fine with the economic costs of protecting endangered species – but only when it meant ...

Democrat Maura Healey says slowing vessels to 10 knots near Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard would create chaos without providing effective whale protection. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is ...

NOAA has withdrawn vessel speed rule changes aimed at strengthening protections for North Atlantic right whales, drawing ...

President Trump will halt new federal leases for wind energy, the White House confirmed Monday, a blow to Massachusetts’ ...

The proposed rules would have slowed more ships to prevent collisions with endangered North Atlantic right whales.

After two years of debate and 90,000 public comments, NOAA withdrew a contentious boat speed rule aimed at Atlantic right ...