Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty-four years ago, the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) was signed into law by none other than the President Richard M.

A landmark law passed more than 50 years ago to protect whales, dolphins and other marine mammals in U.S. waters could be upended by amendments proposed on July 22 during a legislative hearing of the ...

Congressman Nick Begich, a Republican representative from Alaska, introduced a bill in July 2025 that'll drastically weaken the fifty year old Marine Mammal Protection Act. The Marine Mammal ...

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 ...