Clean Ocean Advocate, December 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: Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling Creeps Toward NJ Coast, Keep Us Free from LNG!, New Jersey's Impaired Waterways, EPA: Nitrogen Fertilizer Reduction Ordinance Needed, Flip Your Lid for the Ocean with Aveda and Clean Ocean Action!, A Call to Action!, Tips for Preventing Pollution This Holiday Season (& Beyond), and National and International Progress on Reducing Ship Pollution.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