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Rice’s whales' survival in the crosshairs of oil and gas
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Tell the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM) to
reject dirty energy, seismic blasting, and lease sales that
directly threaten one of the most endangered whales in the world.

New oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico could drive
the critically endangered Rice's whale to extinction. We must
oppose this short-sighted gift to the fossil fuel industry —
please, send your message to BOEM today.

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NRDC Activist — Critically endangered Rice's
whales may be the most endangered whale on the planet, with fewer
than 100 of them left in existence. And they live only in the
Gulf of Mexico.

Just days ago, BOEM held Lease Sale 259, auctioning off key
areas of Rice's whale habitat to the fossil fuel industry,
opening the door to seismic airgun blasting and offshore
drilling.

The dynamite-like blasts of seismic airguns — a precursor
to offshore drilling used to search for oil and gas deposits —
would hinder Rice's whales' ability to find food, stay healthy,
and communicate with their calves. Just one spill, like the
Deepwater Horizon Disaster, could decimate millions of marine
creatures including the critically endangered Rice's whale,
threaten the health and livelihoods of those of us who live and
work along the coasts, and coat entire coastlines with a layer of
crude oil that would take years, if not decades, to clean up.

On top of everything else concerning about dirty and
dangerous offshore drilling, leasing in the habitat of an
endangered whale is a risk we can't afford to take.

Tell BOEM to protect critically endangered Rice's whales
and reject "business as usual" oil leasing and stop auctioning
off our oceans at the cost of our climate, ecosystems, and
communities — before it's too late. ( [link removed] )

Favoring dirty energy over the most vulnerable whales in
the world is the worst kind of business as usual, especially at a
time when we should be phasing down our use of fossil fuels, not
increasing them.

This is just the latest in a worrying trend of offshore
drilling, and NRDC is staying in the fight on all fronts:

* If the massive Willow oil drilling project greenlit last
month in Alaska wasn't bad enough, continued new leasing like
this would also lock in decades of pollution and carbon
emissions, fueling the climate crisis when we need to be doing
everything we can to minimize it.
* NRDC and a coalition of local and national environmental groups
have sued the Biden administration to stop the reckless and
unnecessary leasing in Cook Inlet to the oil industry without
first considering the environmental harms that will result to
protect the two-thirds of Alaska's residents who live in the Cook
Inlet watershed.
* And now in the Gulf of Mexico, we're suing to challenge the
insufficient environmental review of Lease Sale 259 and the harm
that it will cause to critically endangered Rice's whales.

This is business as usual that we can't afford. We need to
continue to generate public outrage to let the oil and gas
industry know that we're watching, and we will be fighting back.
Will you join us?

Urge BOEM to reverse course on Lease Sale 259 that would
lock our children and future generations into depending on dirty
energy while also putting one of the most endangered whales in
the world at risk of extinction. ( [link removed] )

Thank you for taking action. Together, we can help protect
critically endangered Rice's whales and our communities from
needless dirty and dangerous offshore drilling.

Sincerely,

Valerie Cleland

Senior Ocean Advocate, NRDC

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