U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, thanked Senate colleagues this week for unanimously passing the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments (HABHRCA) Act of 2025.

A Sept. 12 press release from the senator’s office said the bipartisan legislation will reauthorize the original HABHRCA Act of 1998 for “coordinated, effective federal-state responses to harmful algal blooms (HABs).” The legislation is expected to strengthen harmful algal bloom programs to ensure communities have access to observation data, training in monitoring, prevention and mitigation, and access to testing for toxins.

Emma Pate, executive director of the Nome Eskimo Community, said in the release that the reauthorized legislation is “a vital heartbeat” in marine environmental research, with essentia

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