Trump's oil drilling is threatening the only national marine sanctuary in the...
Donald Trump’s executive order to open the floodgates on offshore oil drilling means terrible things for the part of the Earth covered by the ocean. One of the more immediate casualties of this...
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Oil monsters Trump and Gillespie are coming to Virginia. Stand up and fight!
Yesterday we learned that the Trump Administration is preparing to withdraw us from the Paris Climate Accord. As David Axelrod told CNN, this is being done as a political move to keep campaign promises...
View ArticleBig Oil defeats California bill to ban new offshore oil drilling
Showing the enormous power of the oil industry in California despite the state’s “green” image, every bill except one opposed by the powerful oil industry has failed to make it out of the state...
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Trump To Rescind Rules Intended To Prevent Oil Spills All Along the U.S Coast
Remember the Deepwater Horizon? Folks in the Gulf states sure do:The U.S. Travel Association estimated that the economic impact of the oil spill on tourism across the Gulf Coast over a three-year...
View ArticleTrump is horrible, but his *policies* seem DESIGNED to deliver even bigger...
This is really a perfect quote:“Coastal Republicans were already having a tough time dealing with constituents who were pissed off about the tax bill,” former Democratic Congressional Campaign...
View ArticlePolicy crafting, Trump style.
This is getting to be fun. A few days ago His Lowness' administration announced that the US government was going to open up basically the entire eastern and western seaboards for offshore drilling....
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Ryan Zinke says 'Florida is obviously unique' as Trump condemns rest of coast...
Last week, Trump announced that offshore drilling was coming to a shore near everyone as he issued new rules that would lift decades of protections for America’s coastlines. By returning the nation to...
View ArticleAnother Republican Governor Wants Out of Trump's Offshore Drilling Insanity
South Carolina’s Governor, Henry McMaster, has joined Florida’s Governor, Rick Scott, in asking Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, for an exemption from Zinke’s plan to open all waters to offshore...
View Article'Equal sovereignty' of the states in the age of Trump
Less than a week into the new year, the Trump administration kicked off 2018 with one of the most cynical and craven acts of political favoritism in recent American history. On January 4, Interior...
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VA-Sen: Tim Kaine (D) Fights Back Against Trump & Ryan Zinke's Offshore...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Tim Kaine’s (D. VA) re-election campaign:Sen. Tim Kaine (D. VA) It's been nearly a week since we last emailed you about our offshore drilling concerns, and...
View ArticleThe Trumpy Awards, Round Five: Worst Cabinet Member
In the early phases of the Trump administration, it was a macabrely amusing, if horribly depressing, parlor game to predict who would be the worst Cabinet nominee. One year into the administration,...
View ArticleYurok Tribe opposes Trump’s offshore drilling development plans
There is no offshore oil drilling taking place now off the Northern California coast — and the Yurok Tribe, other Tribes, fishermen and environmentalists want to keep it that way by stopping the Trump...
View ArticleDebunking the Big Myth: Offshore drilling has increased off California under...
The Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture held the 45th Annual Zeke Grader Fisheries Forum at the State Capitol in Sacramento on March 8. Below a revised version of my testimony before the...
View ArticleTrump aides and Rick Scott plotted Scott's big offshore drilling 'win'
Remember back in January, when the Trump administration gave a miracle reprieve from the administration expansion of off-shore drilling? Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had a number of excuses for...
View ArticleTrump’s not only selling off our oceans, he’s doing it for pennies on the dollar
Trump’s Department of the Interior, headed by a man submerged in fossil fuel stock, is selling off the rights to offshore drilling. This comes after the January announcement that one of the worst...
View ArticleToday: Panel of Climate and Environmental Leaders to Discuss the Road to a...
Oakland, CA -- Today, Monday, May 14th, climate and environmental movement leaders will hold a discussion on how California can be a global model for the fast and just transition from a major...
View ArticleReport: California’s climate leadership requires a managed ramp-down of oil...
A report published today by Oil Change International in collaboration with California-based and national environmental justice and climate groups reveals how California’s climate leadership requires a...
View ArticleNew map reveals massive number of offshore oil wells in California waters
On January 4, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown joined Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Washington Governor Jay Inslee in condemning President Donald Trump's plan to expand oil and gas drilling in...
View ArticleBills to stop new federal offshore drilling approved, but offshore drilling...
Two identical bills authored by Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (Santa Barbara) and Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi (Torrance) to stop the Trump Administration from opening new federal oil drilling leases off...
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Oil spill leaking into Gulf of Mexico for 14 years creates enormous natural...
On Sept. 15, 2004, Hurricane Ivan, traveling through the Gulf of Mexico, toppled a Taylor Energy Company oil platform into the water. As columnist Fred Grimm notes in a piece in the South Florida Sun...
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