Undercurrent Gets Grant for Coverage of Environmental Issues and Advocacy

We just received a $1,000 grant from the Singing Field Foundation, a family foundation in New Hampshire for "continuing support for your coverage of environmental issues, advocacy and fundraising for marine conservation causes." President Jonathan Scott particularly noted our work on banning reef-destroying sunscreens, in which we called out Tropical Seas, the manufacturer of Reef Safe Sun products, for continuing to claim that one of its formulations containing oxybenzone was "reef safe," while serious studies have shown that not to be the case. Sunscreens containing oxybenzone have since been banned in Palau, Hawaii and Key West.