Clean Ocean Advocate, August 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: WAVES OF THANKS OCEAN DEFENDERS!; Going Green to Save Big Blue; Seven Simple Ways to Save Swimmers from Sewage; Final Bayshore Dredged Material Management Plan Released; Flipper-Friendly Fun; You Can Help Keep Our Ocean Wild & Industry Free; Atlantic Sea Island Group Withdraws Lawsuit Against NJ; NJ Legislature Environmental Committees Host Shore Hearing; and NJ Assembly Overwhelmingly Votes Against Offshore Drilling.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