Clean Ocean Advocate, September 2008

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: Persistent Pollution Plagues Beaches; Officials Discuss Offshore LNG Ports; Federal Agency Looks to Lease the Ocean for Energy; Wastewater Discharged into Ocean Needs Stricter Limits; Defining Marine Debris; C.O.A.S.T. Comes to a Close: A Message from Casey Shanley, Coordinator; and, Corporate Employees Hit the Beach!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 and the activities of the COA