Clean Ocean Advocate, December 2007

• Other Authors: Clean Ocean Action (COA)
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Clean Ocean Action (COA) 2007
• Subjects: beach; coastal zone; community awareness; environmental education; pollution; pollution intervention; water; water quality; ecology; ecosystems; environmental impact; environmental law; fish; human health; wastewater; beach sweeps; offshore industrial island; windmills; liquefied natural gas; LNG; Cape May; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.cleanoceanaction.org/index.php?id=38; http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore00000002074.Document.000053748

The monthly Clean Ocean Advocate newsletter informs citizens about critical ocean pollution issues, important meeting dates, proposed legislation, special events, and other notes of interest. Articles in this issue include: Our COAlition- Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Monmouth County (UUCMC); NJ Wins Veto Rights over Mega-Offshore Industrial Island; NJDEP to Study Coast for Offshore Windmills; NJ Victory: Open Space Ballot Question Passes!; Update on Federal Legislation to Protect Beach-goers; Local Action to Support Rapid Water Testing; NJ Cuts-out Standards for Artificial Reef Materials; Agencies Revise Ocean Dumpsite Cleanup Plan; Proposed Dredging of NYC Polluted Waterways Stirs Concern; Coastal Creature Feature: North Atlantic Whale; Become a Marine Mammal Volunteer Responder!; Go Green This Holiday Season; and 2007 Ocean Golf Classic. Clean Ocean Action (COA) is a broad-based coalition of over 150 business, community, conservation, environmental, fishing, boating, diving, student, surfing, women's, and service groups. These "Ocean Wavemakers" work to clean up and protect the waters of the New York Bight (the area of water from Cape May, New Jersey, to Montauk Point, New York, and out to the edge of the outer continental shelf). The groups came together in 1984 to investigate sources, effects, and solutions of ocean pollution. Purpose: To inform citizens about critical ocean pollution issues, proposed legislation, important Clean Ocean Action meeting dates, special events, and other notes of interest.