WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club is mobilizing its members across the country to attend the March for the Ocean. In Washington DC, and around the country, the March for the Ocean Campaign is mounting mass marches, flotillas and rallies, calling for a stop to offshore drilling that threatens our ocean and coastlines and action to protect coastal communities, protect the ocean, and secure clean water for all.
The Department of the Interior sent a memo yesterday to all Bureau of Land Management (BLM) field offices instructing them to speed up environmental reviews of proposed fossil fuel drilling projects on public lands.
This morning, the Washington Post reported that two corporations, along with an oil services firm, have filed an application with the Department of the Interior to do extensive seismic testing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Today, as Chevron executives and shareholders meet for their annual meeting, the company is under increasing pressure to pledge not to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Investors Totaling More Than $2.5 Trillion in Assets Call on Oil Companies, Banks Not to Support Drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The Department of the Interior today unveiled a proposal, to be posted to the Federal Register next week, that would roll back offshore drilling safety rules. The blowout preventer rule was put in place by the Obama administration in response to the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 people and spilled millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico which continues to affect the coast and coastal tourism today.
In a notice that will be officially posted to the Federal Register tomorrow, the Department of the Interior launched the process to hold a lease sale for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced it will begin the process for an offshore drilling lease sale in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea.
One year ago, Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at exploiting our public lands for fossil fuel development and rolling back Obama-era safeguards. In the year since, Ryan Zinke has made it his mission to be a “partner” with industry while pushing their agenda, ignoring the cost to America’s health, safety, and wild places.
Yesterday, the Department of the Interior announced that it will seek to identify more ways to speed up permitting for offshore oil and gas drilling off America's coasts.
Today, the Department of the Interior hosted what it had touted as the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in American history. The sale attracted limited industry interest, receiving bids for just 1 percent of the tracts up for auction.
Conservation and Alaska Native groups have a green light to hold President Trump accountable to the rule of law.