The sales under this program would lock the U.S. into up to 70 additional years of offshore oil and gas extraction, further burdening the health of Gulf communities and imperiling our climate.

The plan is considerably slimmed down from original proposal but still offers up the Gulf to oil and gas industry

Earthjustice analyzed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Act’s connection between offshore oil and gas leasing and renewable energy leasing. Even under Earthjustice’s strictest reading of the IRA, Interior does not need to include more than a single oil and gas sale to allow for all planned federal offshore wind leasing.

Court allows Department of Interior to delay Gulf of Mexico oil and gas auction to November 8, 2023.

Emergency order seeks to reinstate protections before upcoming, massive offshore oil and gas sale

Emergency order seeks to reinstate protections before upcoming, massive offshore oil and gas sale

Granting plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction motion

The lease sale is scheduled close to release of Five-Year Program, which may include 10+ additional offshore oil lease sales

Plaintiffs challenge the unlawful decision by Secretary of the Interior Debra Haaland to hold Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale 261 based on insufficient and arbitrary environmental analyses, in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.

Petition outlines how decades-old use of “categorical exclusion” allows companies to skip over risk assessments in oil and gas “sacrifice zone”

Following reinstatement of massive offshore lease after passage of Inflation Reduction Act

Court rules that the 78 million acre sales violated bedrock environmental law

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the Trump administration unlawfully auctioned off millions of acres to oil companies in two 2018 Gulf of Mexico lease sales. Reversing a lower court’s decision, the appellate court held that the federal officials arbitrarily relied on inadequate environmental analyses of the sales’ effects and relied on incorrect assumptions about the sufficiency of safety regulations, violating a bedrock environmental law.

Gulf and environmental groups fight to stop issuance of leases with active lawsuit

Earthjustice is suing to stop this commitment to decades of greenhouse gas emissions.

Letter directed to Secretary Haaland, Director Lefton, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Annatoyn

Administration opens 78 million acres to oil leasing after courts block Arctic, Atlantic drilling

La administración abrió un arrendamiento de 78 millones de acres a compañías petroleras después de que los tribunales bloquearan la perforación en el Atlántico y el Ártico