Clean Ocean Advocate, July 2009

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: Calling All Friends of the Ocean: CELEBRATE OCEAN INDEPENDENCE DAY Keep Our Ocean Wild & Free from LNG; Fish Advisory Updates, Good News and Bad News; NJ Bathing Beach Rules Undermine Public Health; COA's New Public Advocacy Fellow Onboard; SEA SCENES: Next Generation Launches Fantasy Surfing for Local Waters; Governors Establish Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean; Obama Shows Leadership on the Ocean; and Wave Energy Proposal Update.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