Why Republicans Are Trying to Roll Back a Law that Has Protected Whales, Seals and Other Sea Animals for over 50 Years

Why Republicans are trying to roll back a law that has protected whales, seals and other sea animals for over 50 years

Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction. Conservative leaders feel they now have the political will to remove key pieces of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, enacted in 1972 to protect whales, seals, polar bears and other sea animals. The law also places restrictions on commercial fishermen, shippers and other marine industri…

Republicans Seek to Weaken U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act

On July 8, Congressman Nick Begich III, an Alaska Republican, introduced an amendment to the Marine Mammal Protection Act that would remove core safeguards.