David Newman


Alex Newman is an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council's Oceans Program in New York. He first joined NRDC as a litigation fellow in San Francisco, working on fisheries and offshore oil and gas issues. After some time working on bioenergy issues in Kenya, he rejoined NRDC's Ocean Program in June 2010. His current work involves using law, policy, science, and public outreach to restore the Nation's wild fisheries to sustainable levels. He also works on issues related to sustainable seafood, marine spatial planning and addressing the natural resource damage from the Gulf oil spill.

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Whole Foods stops selling unsustainable seafood

Whole Foods recently became the first major North American retailer to stop selling red-listed seafood. That means no more gray sole, skate, trawl-caught Atlantic cod and other species. Read More

By David Newman