Join Today's National Day of Action Against Trump's HUGE Expansion of Offshore Drilling

The Trump administration announced its plans last month to dramatically expand offshore drilling in all U.S. oceans.

This is a critical moment: The comment period for the drilling plan ends on Friday, so we’re asking everyone to make an urgent call to Congress today demanding they oppose Trump’s plan to drill off our coasts.

With the comment period coming to a close, now is the time to #ProtectOurCoasts from new offshore drilling. In order to win, we need Congress to push back on Trump’s reckless proposal to poison our oceans and wreck our climate.

- Ignite Change

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Hi, my name is _____ and I live in _____. I'm calling to urge Congressmember _____ to oppose Trump's attempts to expand offshore oil and gas drilling in our oceans.

Expanding offshore drilling will devastate coastal communities, harm marine wildlife, and threaten tourism and fishing jobs. It'll also deepen the climate crisis, fueling extreme weather events and driving sea-level rise. Expanding offshore drilling is a road we can't afford to go down. Please oppose Trump's plan to turn our oceans into oilfields.

STOP PRESIDENT TRUMP’S DANGEROUS NEW OFFSHORE DRILLING AGENDA

BREAKING: President Trump to expand dangerous offshore drilling in the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic oceans as well as the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Opening the floodgates to dirty and dangerous offshore drilling is a catastrophe waiting to happen for marine life, coastal communities and our oceans. President Trump’s radical offshore drilling plan puts oil industry priorities ahead of people, ignoring widespread local and state opposition.

Together, we protected much of the Atlantic and Arctic from dirty new drilling, but now those protections are at risk. We must stand united once more, before it’s too late.

Tell President Trump and Secretary Zinke: No new offshore drilling before our oceans, marine life and communities pay the ultimate price.

- OCEANA

#stopoffshoredrilling

Sign the following message HERE. 

Dear President Trump and Secretary Zinke,

I am writing to express my strong opposition to the inclusion of new lease sales in the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific oceans, as well as the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, in the Draft 2019-2024 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program (National OCS Program). This draft plan seems to prioritize the interests of the oil and gas industry above coastal communities that would be most impacted by offshore drilling. Please remove proposed new lease sale areas from consideration in the National OCS Program.

Expanding offshore drilling into currently unleased areas of America’s Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic and Eastern Gulf of Mexico waters would put coastal residents, businesses, and oceans at grave risk. Offshore drilling leads to increased risk of devastating oil spills that impact beaches, wildlife, ecosystems, and all of the businesses that depend on a clean coast. Ocean-based industries like fishing, tourism and recreation generate 2.2 million American jobs and $108.37 billion in GDP in U.S. coastal states, according to the National Ocean Economics Program’s 2016 report. The National OCS Program should reflect the needs of hard-working Americans that rely upon a clean and healthy coast. 

Moreover, the governors of Florida, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, California, Oregon and Washington oppose new leasing off their coast. More than 200 municipalities in East and West Coast states formally oppose offshore drilling and/or exploration. More than 42,000 businesses and 500,000 fishing families have also joined this overwhelming chorus of voices against expanded offshore drilling. The draft plan in its current state disregards this widespread opposition.

The draft plan presents a dangerous and backward policy direction. To meet national energy needs, the Department of Interior should wholly reconsider their proposal for expanded offshore drilling and instead refocus agency resources to identify strategies to expand clean energy sources. Advancing clean and renewable energy will allow future generations to enjoy unlimited supplies of American-made, pollution-free energy. 

I strongly oppose this draft plan and urge you to remove all new proposed lease sales in the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific oceans, as well as the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. Protect our coast and prevent the expansion of offshore drilling.

Tell Congress to stop Trump's outrageous offshore drilling scheme, and keep our coast off limits to oil giants

President Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke have released an outrageous plan to auction off vast swaths of our U.S. coastlines to disastrous offshore drilling.

From Maine to Florida, Washington State to California, across the Arctic and in the Gulf of Mexico, their plan would put drill rigs off the coast of every coastal state — endangering communities, marine wildlife, and our climate with the risk of catastrophic oil spills.

Congress has the power to stop this dirty, dangerous plan by passing legislation that would protect our coastlines — but we must push them to take action now.

Tell your senators and representative to stand up to Trump's fossil fuel giveaway, and protect our coast and our climate from reckless oil and gas drilling!

Despite years of cleanup, tourism and wildlife still haven't fully recovered from the horrific Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that spilled millions of gallons of crude oil. Tar balls still turn up on beaches. Toxic poisons continue to show up in birds and wildlife. Dolphins are still sick and dying at elevated rates.

Trump's short-sighted drilling scheme would put virtually every inch of our coastlines at risk of devastating oil spills. It will irreversibly harm dolphins, whales, polar bears, otters, and other imperiled wildlife that thrive in and around our oceans ... threaten coastal jobs and economies ... dramatically amplify the effects of climate change ... and block our path to a clean energy future by keeping us shackled to the heavily polluting fossil fuels of the past.

All of this, just to pad the pockets of oil executives.

Americans overwhelmingly oppose expanding drilling off our coast. We need Congress to act by launching a full-on legislative counteroffensive that will stop this drilling plan in its tracks.

We need you to help us mobilize a massive, nationwide public outcry in defense of our coast, our communities, and our climate, and make your voice heard at your senators' and representative's offices across the country.

Tell Congress to stop Trump's outrageous offshore drilling scheme, and keep our coast off limits to oil giants!

- Rhea Suh, NRDC 

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

Add your name to OPPOSE Trump's offshore oil disaster

Donald Trump is doing all he can to try to destroy the environment. From his nomination of Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA to his decision to close Bears Ears National Monument, Trump has shown zero regard for our planet.

Now Trump is proposing a new plan to help his Big Oil donor buddies at the expense of our Earth — by expanding offshore oil drilling on our coasts.

Add your name to OPPOSE Trump's offshore oil disaster »

America's coastlines are among the most majestic places on Earth. Yet Donald Trump's administration just announced plans to auction off drilling rights on the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf coasts, as well as in the Arctic. Turning over these areas to the world's biggest polluters would devastate marine life, threaten fragile beaches, and jeopardize the health and economies of coastal communities.

We know that to block the worst effects of climate change, we have to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Climate change and pollution hurt already-marginalized people the most. This step would exacerbate cruel environmental injustices.

In addition, coastal drilling won't create long-term jobs or improve energy security. Let's block this dirty fossil fuel plan, and invest in clean, renewable energy that creates good jobs and secures our energy future.

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Sign the petition: Help Protect Oceans and Wildlife from Offshore Drilling

The Trump administration is taking its war on wildlife to the oceans.

In its latest bid to sell out our public resources, the Trump administration recently announced its intentions to expose nearly all U.S. coastal waters to dirty and dangerous oil and gas exploration.

Act Now: Demand that our marine wildlife and oceans be protected from destructive oil and gas drilling.

A new five-year offshore oil leasing plan, presented last Thursday by Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, puts coastal communities and countless marine wildlife species in real danger.

This administration is blatantly ignoring the lessons of spills like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe – and adding insult to injury, this new plan comes just days after a proposal to repeal the offshore drilling safety regulations that were put in place to prevent a disaster like that from ever happening again.

Stop this madness! Take action now and tell Secretary Zinke our oceans aren’t for sale.

In 2010, the world watched in horror as oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico. Bottlenose dolphins washed up dead on our shores, Kemp’s ridley sea turtles – the world’s most endangered sea turtles – were killed by the thousands and seabirds like laughing gulls sustained losses of nearly 40 percent of their populations.

We can’t let wildlife ever pay that price again.

Drilling in our oceans is a dangerous and dirty business even when there is no major disaster. Seismic blasting can deafen marine mammals like whales and dolphins; small, routine spills poison birds, turtles and other marine life; and undersea pipelines, dumping and drilling infrastructure further contaminate ocean ecosystems.

At a time when our planet needs to reduce its dependence on oil and gas in the face of climate change, the Trump administration is proposing a massive expansion that only increases the risks of climate disasters, contamination and harm to wildlife and coastal communities.

Act Now: Demand that our marine wildlife and oceans be protected from destructive oil and gas drilling.

- Jamie Rappaport Clark
President, Defenders of Wildlife

#savewildlife

Submit a public comment against offshore oil drilling right now

Deepwater Horizon disaster

From Florida to California, the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, the Trump administration wants to drill for oil off of almost every single coastline in America

The Trump Administration wants to drill for oil off the coast Northern California. And that's not all.  Just hours ago ago the Department of Interior released its draft five year plan for offshore oil and gas leasing that seeks to expand drilling in Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and Arctic waters — and auction off permanently protected areas.

We need to fight this tooth and nail at every level of government, starting by flooding the Interior Department with public comments.

Speak out against offshore oil drilling by submitting a public comment against the 5 year plan right now!

The Trump administration is willfully ignoring the lessons from the Deepwater Horizon disaster by moving to undo basic offshore drilling safety measures while handing over our oceans to the fossil fuel industry.

If the Interior Department’s five-year oil and gas leasing plan moves forward, corporations will have access to drill off nearly every coast in the United States. This puts coastal communities and economies, marine wildlife, public health, and the climate at an unimaginable risk. We need a massive public outcry to stop new drilling. Will you add your voice?

Coastal governors and other politicians from both parties, Native tribes, businesses, and communities like yours are already gearing up against the plan. We can stop the administration's most reckless plans to line the pockets of oil companies if we start building momentum from day one. 

Submit a public comment opposing offshore oil drilling right now!

- Mary Sweeters
Climate and Energy Campainger, Greenpeace USA