He first joined NRDC as a litigation fellow in San Francisco, working on fisheries and offshore oil and gas issues. 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.