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What’s happening: BP, the company behind the worst oil spill in U.S. history, is asking the Trump administration to allow it to drill a new, ultra-deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico. Why it matters: BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 killed 11 people and released over 5 million barrels of oil that blanketed the…

The Trump administration is opening millions of acres of ocean to oil companies. New offshore drilling risks huge oil spills.

After trying various scorched-earth tactics to avoid accountability, Taylor Energy is now liquidating to pay over $400 million in cleanup costs.

Taylor Energy settled with the Department of Interior, agreeing to turn over more than $400 million to the government to plug the longest-running offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

15 years after one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, we’re suing the Trump administration for attempting to reopen protected areas of the Gulf coastline for oil and gas drilling.

The Line 5 pipeline has already leaked over 1 million gallons of oil to date and threatens the Great Lakes. Time is running out to stop one company’s dangerous plans to keep the oil flowing.

Wisconsin’s inadequate environmental analysis of Enbridge’s rushed and haphazard Line 5 pipeline reroute does grave injustice to frontline Tribal communities.

Tribes and environmental orgs are asking the Court to overturn a state agency’s permit

Healthy Gulf goes to court to oppose Taylor’s lawsuit to prevent spill clean up efforts

Coast Guard reports containment system is now fully installed and operating

Locals aren’t letting dirty industry expand in the Gulf without a fight.

The president used a federal law to ban future oil and gas drilling in parts of the Atlantic, Pacific, Alaska, and the Gulf of Mexico.

A judge overturned the Biden administration’s reckless lease sale in Cook Inlet, citing threats to the rare beluga whale.

Waivers and rollback of Well Control Rule put lives at risk.

Court rules that the official biological opinion is not adequate to protect species

The only thing we can truly trust this industry to do is fight to preserve its business model and secure profits for its shareholders.

Oil and ice don’t mix. Shell’s inadequate oil spill response plans put the Arctic at risk

Letter comes on eve of the 14th anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon spill