All of these issues came to a head in 1972, when the US Congress passed the Marine Mammal Protection Act. On October 21, the Marine Mammal Protection Act (P.L. 92-522) was signed into law, having ...

In March, Rep. Julia Brownley (D-CA) reintroduced the Marine Mammal Climate Change Protection Act (HR 1383), to protect marine mammals adversely affected by the climate crisis. Since 1972, the Marine ...