Just as more oil companies abandon existing leases in US Arctic waters, the Obama Administration is preparing a new Five-Year Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program to auction off public resources without accounting for the social costs of climate change.
A report from Greenpeace and Oil Change International finds that President Obama's proposal to expand offshore oil drilling in the Arctic and the Gulf of Mexico will increase global carbon emissions and impose billions of dollars in social costs.
The government has downplayed the climate impacts of oil drilling, but a new study shows that keeping oil in the ground will help fight climate change.
Gulf communities are still reeling from the devastating impacts of the BP disaster, which began unfolding six years ago on April 20, 2010. For some unfathomable reason, the federal government chose the sixth anniversary of this disaster to hold hearings asking these same communities for input on opening up even more areas of the Gulf to dangerous offshore oil drilling.
Despite the catastrophic risks that oil spills and climate change pose to coastal communities and wildlife, Alaskan waters may be open for oil and gas drilling for the next five years. But not if Alaskans have anything to do with it.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s new five-year offshore oil and gas draft program includes future leasing options in the Arctic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
Right now, the movement to take back power from the fossil fuel industry has never been so strong. Thanks to people like YOU speaking out, the Obama administration ruled out new drilling plans off the Atlantic Coast. Now, it's time we ramp up our efforts to end ALL new drilling off our coasts.
Today, coastal communities and allies are delivering a message to the White House: keep oil rigs out of our oceans.
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