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Offshore oil and gas platforms are a common site in the Gulf of Mexico, including this one off the Louisiana coast. (Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice)
Press Release August 25, 2023

Lawsuit Challenges Massive Offshore Lease Sale for Failing to Properly Consider Gulf Communities and Climate

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

Document August 25, 2023

Complaint: Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale 261

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.

Document July 11, 2023

Gulf and Environmental Groups Call on Interior Department to End Routine Fast-Tracking of Offshore Oil Drilling Projects

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

Document November 23, 2022

Conservation Groups' Opposition to Motions to Dismiss Gulf Lease 257

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

Press Release: Victory August 30, 2022

Federal Court Sends Two Unlawful Trump-Era Offshore Oil Lease Sales in Gulf of Mexico Back to Department of Interior to Reconsider

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

Document August 30, 2022

2018 Gulf Lease Sale Appeal

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.

Press Release November 17, 2021

Despite Environmental Commitments Made at COP, Biden Administration Offers Over 80 Million Acres of Gulf of Mexico for Oil, Gas Drilling

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

A new offshore lease sale would add more fossil fuel infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico and worsen the climate crisis.
 (Brad Zweerink / Earthjustice)
Update November 17, 2021

Biden Administration Invites Climate Catastrophe with Oil and Gas Lease Sale

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

Document July 29, 2021

Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Required for Lease Sale 257

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

Document August 7, 2019

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Huge Offshore Drilling Sale in Gulf of Mexico

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

Plataformas petroleras en el Golfo de México. (Lucasz Z / Shutterstock)
Press Release August 6, 2019

Demanda Desafía Una Enorme Venta Realizada por la Administración Trump Para La Perforación Mar Adentro en El Golfo de México

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

Oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. (Lucasz Z / Shutterstock)
Press Release August 6, 2019

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Huge Offshore Drilling Sale in Gulf of Mexico

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

Document May 16, 2019

Taylor Energy Spill: Coast Guard's Status Update on Containing the Spill

Coast Guard reports most of the leak is contained

A boat monitors the oil sheen from the Taylor Energy leak.
(Healthy Gulf)
Press Release May 16, 2019

Judge Allows Healthy Gulf to Intervene in Taylor Energy Lawsuit over 14 Year Oil Spill

Coast Guard reports containment system is now fully installed and operating

Un bote supervisa el brillo del aceite de la fuga de Taylor Energy.
(Healthy Gulf)
Press Release May 16, 2019

Juez Permite a la Organización Healthy Gulf Intervenir en la Demanda Judicial Contra Taylor Energy Por Derrame de Petróleo de 14 Años

Guardia Costera Reporta Que Un Sistema de Contención Está Completamente Instalado Y En Funcionamiento

Oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. (Lucasz Z / Shutterstock)
Press Release August 14, 2018

Lawsuits Challenge Trump Administration’s Decision to Sacrifice Gulf of Mexico to Offshore Drilling

Earthjustice has two lawsuits challenging oil and gas activities across 78 million acres in Gulf

A seismic survey fleet passes an off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
(Land By Sea / Getty Images)
Press Release August 4, 2017

Feds: Seismic Oil Surveys In Gulf Of Mexico Would Harm Or Harass Marine Mammals Over 30 Million Times

Bureau of Ocean Management releases final environmental impact analysis of seismic surveys for gulf oil exploration

Oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. (Lucasz Z / Shutterstock)
Press Release March 17, 2016

Feds Update Woefully Outdated Air Pollution Standards For Offshore Oil Drilling

Earthjustice statement on Bureau of Ocean Energy Management proposed new standards