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Statement: Salve Our Seas Act 2.0 Dives Deeper into U.Due south. and Global Interventions to Fight Ocean Plastic Pollution

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In Oct 2022, President Trump signed the Save Our Seas Act into law, thereby reauthorizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Assistants'southward (NOAA) Marine Debris Program through FY2022 at the longstanding level of $10 one thousand thousand annually and urging the Land Section to engage on the marine debris problem globally. Ocean Salvation commended the legislation as a modest but necessary step in the fight against ocean plastic pollution. On Wed, June 26, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) introduced Save Our Seas Deed ii.0, building on the first Salve Our Seas Human activity with more specific interventions that can be implemented in the U.Due south. and abroad to address the scourge of ocean plastic. Kevin Allexon, Senior Director of Government Relations at Sea Conservancy, released the post-obit argument in response:

"Bounding main Salvation strongly supports Salvage Our Seas Deed 2.0, which rightly recognizes that there is no single solution to the bounding main plastic crisis, and that it will take a concerted global try to address this claiming.

"We are pleased that in addition to considering plastic reduction policies, the pecker proposes improvements to both domestic and international waste management and recycling systems. Every country, including the U.S., tin can do more to forbid plastic from inbound the sea. Nosotros are likewise pleased that the bill prioritizes research initiatives to better understand the problem of bounding main plastic and what interventions would be well-nigh effective. Ocean Salvation has long advocated for science-based solutions to this problem, and we believe that additional research is sorely needed in this expanse.

"We congratulate Senators Sullivan, Whitehouse and Menendez for their leadership and, building on the momentum of the commencement Salve Our Seas Human activity, for delivering this important bill. We await frontward to working with them and other ocean allies in Congress over the coming months to strengthen it farther."

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Kevin Allexon is bachelor for interviews upon request.

Well-nigh Bounding main Salvation:

Ocean Conservancy is working with you to protect the ocean from today'southward greatest global challenges. Together, nosotros create science-based solutions for a salubrious ocean and the wildlife and communities that depend on information technology. For more information, visit www.oceanconservancy.org, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

Near Ocean Conservancy's Trash Free Seas ® Plan:

Body of water Conservancy has led the fight for a clean, trash-gratis ocean since 1986, when the organization launched its showtime annual International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) on a beach in Texas. Since and so, the ICC has expanded to over 150 countries and has mobilized millions of volunteers to remove more than 300 million pounds of trash from beaches and waterways around the globe, all the while logging each particular and building the world's largest database on marine debris.

Recognizing that cleanups alone will non solve the growing ocean plastic crisis, Bounding main Conservancy has leveraged that data and invested in additional scientific discipline to improve understand the sources of bounding main plastic. In 2022, Ocean Conservancy launched the Trash Gratuitous Seas Alliance®, uniting conservationists, scientists and members of the private sector to piece of work together for pragmatic, impactful solutions to the trouble, such as the launch of Circulate Uppercase and Urban Ocean. In 2022, Body of water Conservancy assumed leadership of the Global Ghost Gear Initiative to reduce the corporeality of lost and abandoned fishing gear entering the ocean and engage fishers on best practices. Learn more at world wide web.oceanconservancy.org/trashfreeseas.