Friend,

As soon as this week, the Department of Interior will open a comment period for the draft 5-year offshore drilling plan – their most pivotal decision related to oil and gas development on public lands and waters. We have a chance to make a huge impact here. 

We need every LCV supporter on deck to submit comments, demanding no new offshore drilling lease sales for the 2023-2028 plan. Text COASTS to 877877 and we’ll notify you as soon as the administration starts accepting input on their plans. We only have 90 days to flood the Biden Admin. with comments to show how seriously we are opposed to new leasing.  

High gas prices are putting the Biden Administration under enormous pressure to expand offshore drilling – even though we know that new offshore leases won’t solve the problem, since they’ll take years to start producing oil. More lease sales will lock us into dirty, dangerous drilling at the exact time when we urgently need to be moving away from fossil fuels and accelerating our transition to clean energy. 

What’s more, offshore drilling hurts frontline and coastal communities who already bear the brunt of climate change burdens, with the continued inevitability of spills, harms to public health, and disastrous effects for the tourism and fishing industries on which so many of these communities rely. Ensuring there is no new leasing is a matter of environmental justice. 



This summer is our chance to stop new offshore drilling from being greenlit, and we can’t afford to miss this opportunity. We know the Biden administration is looking closely at these comments to gauge public opinion on their plans. 

Text COASTS to 877-877 to join the fight for our communities, our coasts, and our future.

Thank you for joining the fight.

Leah Donahey, Federal Advocacy Campaigns Director
League of Conservation Voters

P.S. Next month we are offering an exclusive Activist Briefing on Oil and Gas Leasing, giving you an inside perspective on the prospects for the 5-year plan and an overview of what’s at stake, featuring senior leadership and policy experts at LCV. Click here to sign up for more information >>