The new report acknowledges what environmental groups have long warned

New environmental impact statement required for destructive sonar and explosives use

A recent settlement agreement with the Navy ensures that marine mammal deaths will now be investigated to help avoid additional military sonar-related deaths.

A federal court entered an order settling two cases challenging the U.S. Navy’s training and testing activities off the coasts of Southern California and Hawai‘i, securing long-sought protections for whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals by limiting Navy activities in vital habitat.

Maps of where certain U.S. Navy activities will be limited under the September 2015 settlement.

Areas around Hawaii Island.

Areas around Molokai Island.

Areas off the coast of Southern California.

Areas off the coast of Southern California, near San Nicolas Island, Santa Catalina Island and San Clemente Island.

For the first time ever, the Navy has agreed to put vast swaths of important habitat for numerous marine mammals off limits to dangerous sonar training and testing.

A judge tells the Navy that it doesn’t need access to every square inch of the ocean to conduct training exercises. There is a better way to protect both our country and our wildlife.

Federal judge says Feds wrongly approved plan allowing whales, dolphins, other wildlife to be harmed nearly 10 million times

The federal government will finally put a captive orca named Lolita on the endangered species list, a move that may open doors to her eventual return home to the Puget Sound in Washington state.

As Shell's operator pleads guilty for a 2012 drilling mess, the oil company is already gearing up to drill again with the same operator and an even bigger and dirtier drilling plan.

Navy training is essential to national security, but there's a way to minimize the harm that it inflicts on marine mammals.

Millions of marine mammals face injury, death off Hawai‘i, Southern California

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.

Thanks to long-running Earthjustice litigation on behalf of Alaska Native and conservation groups, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ordered the Department of the Interior to reconsider its decision to issue millions of acres of oil leases to companies like Shell and ConocoPhillips in the Chukchi Sea. In response, the government has suspended drilling there pending the review.