Speak out against the largest expansion of offshore drilling activity ever proposed by submitting a public comment now!

There's a monster coming up from the swamp, but it's not this sad bird. 

The Trump administration’s drilling plan would offer up to 90 percent of our ocean waters to energy companies to drill for oil and gas over a five-year period. Imagine offshore oil rigs lining the entire U.S. coast, threatening our coastal communities, beaches and wildlife with dirty oil spills. Under the new offshore drilling program proposed by the Trump administration, this nightmarish scenario could become reality.

Speak out against the largest single expansion of offshore drilling activity ever proposed. Tell the Trump administration that you reject the new offshore drilling proposal by submitting a comment today!

After a multiyear planning process in which over 1 million people submitted comments in opposition to expanding offshore oil drilling, the Obama administration finalized an offshore drilling program that excluded the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans. At the end of 2016, President Obama permanently withdrew the vast majority of the Arctic Ocean and important parts of the Atlantic from new oil and gas drilling.

Only a monster would leave this mess for our kids.

Last April, President Trump issued an order attempting to reverse those withdrawals, and his new offshore drilling plan puts the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific back on the oil and gas leasing block and calls for more leasing in the Gulf of Mexico. There has been no offshore federal leasing in the Pacific since 1984, and currently there are no federal drilling operations in the Arctic or Atlantic. Even the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, which Congress placed under a drilling moratorium until 2022, would be subject to potential oil and gas drilling.

Speak out against offshore drilling by submitting a public comment now!

The devastating and dirty legacies of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster, and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion are still with us today. Millions of gallons of oil were spilled, taking an enormous toll on coastal communities and marine life.

Montage of images from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

In addition to the risk of pollution and oil spills, new offshore oil drilling would lock us into decades of fossil fuel production and exacerbate climate disruption.

You can make a difference by submitting a public comment in opposition to new offshore drilling today!

- Steve Mashuda, Managing Attorney for Oceans, Earthjustice

Tell the Federal Energy Regulation Commission: No handouts for coal and nuclear power

The petition to the Federal Energy Regulation Commission reads: "Rick Perry's proposal to bail out coal and nuclear power would increase energy bills, harm public health and threaten the transition to clean, safe renewable energy. Do not adopt any rules to prop up dying industries at the cost of our future." Add your name:

Rick Perry has come up with a creative new way to bail out failing coal and nuclear plants – by forcing electricity customers to pay for them. As Trump's Secretary of Energy, Perry has proposed a new rule that would actually require customers to subsidize certain coal and nuclear plants, guaranteeing their profits.1 Worried that cheaper, cleaner and safer forms of energy are beating out their favorite industries, Trump and Perry want the Federal Regulatory Commission (FERC) to stack the decks. We must let FERC know that this is unacceptable. Tell the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Reject Rick Perry's plan to bail out coal and nuclear plants. Click here to sign the petition. To justify his plan, Perry is claiming that coal and nuclear power are necessary to make sure the electricity grid stays reliable. But his own agency released a study just months ago concluding that closing coal and nuclear plants has not threatened grid reliability, and neither has the increased use of renewable energy.2 In reality, the main threat to our electricity grid is its aging infrastructure – but forcing customers to prop up unprofitable power plants will do nothing to help with that. FERC is the independent expert agency in charge of managing the electricity grid, and ultimately FERC commissioners will decide on Perry's proposal. A bipartisan group of eight former FERC commissioners wrote a letter opposing Perry's plan. They said that it won't help with grid reliability but will cost customers more and disrupt energy markets.3 Not only would Perry's proposed rule lead to higher energy bills and more dangerous pollution, it would increase the chances of catastrophic climate change. In a year when climate-fueled storms and wildfires have already left thousands of Americans homeless, we should be investing in the cleanest, most affordable energy sources available. We cannot let Trump and Perry stop our progress to renewable energy. Tell the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Reject Rick Perry's plan to bail out coal and nuclear plants. Click the link below to sign the petition: https://act.credoaction.com/sign/no-coal-handouts?t=7&akid=25782%2E3130208%2E_Qk8Re - Brandy Doyle, Campaign Manager CREDO Action from Working Assets Add your name: References: David Roberts, "Rick Perry’s plan to subsidize coal and nuclear plants is bonkers," Vox, Oct. 4, 2017 Ibid. Steven Mufson, "Bipartisan group of former FERC commissioners rejects energy secretary’s bid to help coal plants," The Washington Post, Oct. 19, 2017.