Stop Offshore Drilling

Amid a worsening climate crisis, senseless war in Ukraine, and soaring energy prices, some are calling for the Secretary of the Interior to conduct new offshore oil and gas leasing in the next five-year program. But the only thing new leasing would do is lock in fossil fuel infrastructure and climate pollution for decades, even as our planet continues to warm.

Our broad coalition is fighting the Trump administration to keep our coasts permanently off-limits to oil and gas drilling.

A federal court yesterday halted the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history. This positions 2022 as the year the Biden administration can set us on a course for a fossil fuel-free ocean.

The delay comes after a legal victory by NRDC and our partners, which reinstated Obama-era protections for hundreds of millions of acres of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.

The decision maintains protections for 128 million acres of ocean and the vast marine life they support.

The coral system is 85 miles long and has been there for hundreds of thousands of years.

As Californians protest the Trump administration’s intent to expand drilling off the Pacific coast, some city and state officials consider new legislation to block it.

NRDC played a key role in banning offshore drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic. Once again, it’s fighting to protect those oceans—and the rest of America’s waters.

Continuing business-as-usual offshore oil and gas leasing simply does not put us on a path to meet our climate goals.

Offshore drilling is a double blow to our oceans—increasing the risk of spills and pollution in the marine environment while fueling climate change impacts.

Imagine dynamite going off in your neighborhood every 10 seconds. Now imagine you can’t leave. That’s how marine life experience offshore oil and gas exploration.

While the state can take solace in the recent moratorium extension, its waters are still at risk from the devastating impacts of seismic testing.

The Department of the Interior has released its much-anticipated report on how it plans to reform federal oil and gas leasing and permitting.