The CEO’s Advocacy Committee brings together a diverse group of coastal scientists, conservationists, and educators to share information and identify coastal resource issues that need attention. The committee studies and monitors these issues and, when appropriate, generates a wide variety of persuasive educational information for government officials and legislators.

The Advocacy Committee has examined coastal conservation issues such as:

• surface water withdrawal permit requests by private water brokers
• a related plan to inject chemically-treated river water into the Floridan Aquifer
• Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHE)
• protecting the integrity of the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act
• the Okefenokee Education and Research Center (OERC)
• National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit violations, including sewage discharges into coastal waters
• proposed changes and exemptions to the Clean Water Act
• Heritage Fund legislation

If you would like to participate in our monthly Advocacy Committee meetings, please check the appropriate box in out contact information form.