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Una nueva opinión biológica federal no aborda los daños causados por la perforación de combustibles fósiles en el Golfo de México.

New federal biological opinion fails to address harm from fossil fuel drilling in the Gulf

Earthjustice, on behalf of the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, and the Turtle Island Restoration Network, filed suit to properly protect rare species, including Rice’s whales and Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, from being harmed or killed by fossil fuel drilling and exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.

Brettny Hardy, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “Ultimately, what matters here is we have a decision to intensify and extend harms to vulnerable communities who’ve been suffering for decades, and punting these harms down the road. But this is the place where Interior has to address the inequalities, because this is a decision about how often…

Ava Ibanez Amador, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “There should be a framework where the operators that are benefiting from resources in the Gulf of Mexico should be responsible for the entire life cycle of their profits, and that includes the decommissioning.”

This order threatens indigenous cultural heritage and critical species’ habitat within and around the monument

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.

Interior failed to properly evaluate the harm from billion-barrel oil lease sale

A five-year offshore oil and gas leasing plan that will be announced later in September may include 10+ additional offshore oil lease sales.

Interior Department failed to properly evaluate the harm from billion-barrel oil lease sale.

Earthjustice presents to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the important relationship between the ocean and human rights.

Steve Mashuda, Managing Attorney, Oceans Program: “We’re at a point with Rice’s whales where we need to be doing everything possible within our power to save this species. Slowing vessels down just as they’re transiting this narrow band of Rice’s Whale habitat in the Gulf of Mexico is a thing that can be done immediately.…

Steve Mashuda, Managing Attorney, Oceans Program: “If you’re concerned about whales being harmed by offshore energy, I’ve got a whale in the Gulf of Mexico I’d like you to meet. The Deepwater Horizon spill killed close to a quarter of the population alone. The Gulf doesn’t belong to the oil industry, the Gulf belongs to…

Ava Ibanez Amador, Attorney, Oceans Program: “The longer that you leave an infrastructure in the water, the harder it becomes to decommission, because it becomes more hazardous to have someone go in there and see what needs to be done.”

Amid a flurry of anti-environment executive orders on his first day in office, Trump issued an order to revoke former president Biden’s protection of millions of acres of undeveloped public waters from future oil and gas drilling.

Drew Caputo, VP of Litigation for Lands, Wildlife, Oceans at Earthjustice, explains the legal challenge to block the Trump administration’s illegal ocean drilling plan.

Dos acciones legales retan los intentos del presidente Trump de permitir exploraciones de petróleo y gas en territorios océanicos

Executive order gives oil and gas companies a green light to drill in public waters that had been protected off almost every U.S. coast.