Photograph: © SAF – Coastal Care.
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The Trump administration has released a disastrous proposal to auction off huge swaths of America’s oceans for oil and gas drilling — endangering our marine life and coastal communities with the risk of catastrophic oil spills, and threatening coastal jobs and economies…
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s radical five-year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) proposal ignores science and public opinion…
TAKE ACTION:Tell Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to keep our coasts permanently off-limits to oil and gas drilling – NRDC
Read Full Article And Learn More, NRDC (03-2018)
Trump Spares NO Coast, Every State at Risk: A Call To Take Action, By NRDC (01-05-2018)
Trump Moves to Open Nearly All Offshore Waters to Drilling; The New York Times (01-04-2018)
Business View: ‘No Good Reason For Drilling’; Coastal review (05-31-2017)
Every aspect of offshore drilling, from exploration to transporting the product from the drilling site, has implications for marine life and coastal communities…
The ‘Job-Killing’ Fiction Behind Trump’s Retreat on Fuel Economy Standards; Yale E360 (04-20-2017)
Why U.S. East Coast Should Stay Off-Limits to Oil Drilling, Yale E360 (02-28-2015)
It’s not just the potential for a catastrophic spill that makes the new proposal to open Atlantic Ocean waters to oil exploration such a bad idea. What’s worse is the cumulative impact on coastal ecosystems that an active oil industry would bring…
Estimates of offshore drilling’s benefits exaggerated, report says, The Virginian Pilot (12-15-2015)
When You Drill, You Spill; Huffington Green (05-27-2015)
The Santa Barbara County spill, one of the largest in California history, reiterates what we already know: We can’t extract oil and transport it without putting our beaches, wildlife, and coastal communities at risk. The sad fact is, when you drill, you spill.
Featured Gallery Image, Courtesy of: ©-William Sargeant The Well From Hell, Book
