Seismic airgun blasting in the Atlantic Ocean could deafen marine life — and imperil the foundations of the ocean food web.

The federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has added the critically endangered Gulf of Mexico Rice’s whale to a de facto extinction watchlist. But we still need to do more to protect the species.

Powerful underwater blasts put iconic endangered whale at risk

Environmental coalition reaches legal settlement with feds and oil and gas industry

In its attempt to open up U.S. waters to the fossil fuel industry, the Trump administration gave a green light to conduct harmful seismic surveys. We’re taking them to court.

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As companies search for oil and gas deposits buried beneath the ocean floor in the Atlantic, whales and dolphins could suffer permanent hearing damage and even death.

Filing: Government downplayed considerable harm blasting would cause

Environmental groups will use every tool available to prevent seismic airgun blasting for oil and gas surveys

Bureau of Ocean Management releases final environmental impact analysis of seismic surveys for gulf oil exploration

Because of commercial seismic surveys, hundreds of whales could lose their ability to hunt prey, navigate and communicate with one another.

Oil and gas exploration activity would have unnecessarily harmed whales and dolphins

The new report acknowledges what environmental groups have long warned

Earthjustice highlights catastrophic combined effects of industrial airgun blasting and Navy sonar tests

On July 18, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management gave its stamp of approval to a framework for oil and gas exploration in the Atlantic Ocean, on an area of land stretching from Florida to the Delaware Bay.