NOAA has withdrawn a proposed right whale protection rule that would have required more ships to slow down in more areas.

expanded seasonal slow zones to account for known right whale habitat and made reactive slow zones mandatory, not voluntary.

After two years of debate and 90,000 public comments, NOAA withdrew a contentious boat speed rule aimed at Atlantic right ...

NOAA has withdrawn vessel speed rule changes aimed at strengthening protections for North Atlantic right whales, drawing mixed reactions.

Shortly before Trump’s inauguration, a federal agency withdrew a proposal to protect North Atlantic right whales from vessel ...

The U.S. government recently dropped a proposed rule aimed at protecting the endangered North Atlantic right whale, a ...

The proposed rules would have slowed more ships to prevent collisions with endangered North Atlantic right whales.

A proposed slow zone for ferries, ships and large boats along the U.S ... youth sports, and more. But right whale experts ...

The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...

Surveyors at the New England Aquarium spotted at least 50 — and possibly more than 60 — whales grouped in a small area east of Portsmouth, N.H.

The U.S. federal government has rescinded its proposal to strengthen regulations on boat speeds along the East Coast. Fewer ...

In New Jersey, the zone would have been in effect from Nov. 1 to May 1, a time when the right whale migrates off the coast here. The effort was aimed to reduce vessel strikes to the critically ...