Tell the Biden Administration: No New Offshore Drilling Leases

The Biden administration is proposing to auction off large swaths of our
coasts to the oil and gas industry for risky and dangerous offshore
drilling. Help us stop them.

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Dear NRDC Action Fund Activist,

Every catastrophic oil spill begins with a lease sale ...

It's been 12 years since the horrific Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion,
which poured at least 134 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of
Mexico — and tourism and wildlife still haven't fully recovered, despite
years of cleanup.

And yet, despite touting the boldest
climate agenda of any administration to date, President Biden's Interior
Department just released a five-year offshore drilling plan that includes
proposals for as many as 11 potential offshore leases for oil and gas
companies in public waters in the Gulf of Mexico and possibly Alaska.

Offshore drilling is risky and dangerous — and expanding it is
antithetical to our climate goals. Just one oil spill would spell
catastrophe for beaches, Indigenous communities, coastal communities,
marine wildlife, and fishermen alike. We support communities opposing
further leasing — including in the Gulf of Mexico, which should NOT be the nation’s
sacrifice zone.

[ [link removed] ]Thankfully, the Biden administration is accepting public comments on
its proposal — but only for a limited time. We need to rally a massive
public outcry urging them to reverse course and protect our coasts from
drilling. Will you submit a public comment right
away?

The oil and gas industry is using the gas price crisis to push for more
drilling — as they reap record profits — but they're already sitting on
the rights to drill across 11 million acres of ocean, and only using a
quarter of that. And the U.S. is on track to hit all-time records on both
oil and gas production this year.

By their own admission, the oil and gas industry has enough acreage to
sustain oil operations at current levels for a decade or more — and
expanded drilling would have NO impact on the current gas price crisis, as
new leases would not yield more oil supply for at least five years.

The true price tag for oil and gas goes far beyond the pump. Our
communities pay when children suffer from asthma. Catastrophic oil spills
devastate our communities, ocean waters, and marine life. And taxpayers
are forced to fork over billions a year in subsidies to polluters.

It's time to reduce, not expand, offshore oil and gas leasing.

[ [link removed] ]Submit your comment NOW: Tell Biden's Interior Secretary Deb Haaland
that the administration must revise its five-year plan to include NO new
leases, and to instead double down on the bold climate action we need to
avert climate catastrophe.

Scientists say we must cut fossil fuel emissions at least in half by the
end of the decade if we are to have any hope of staving off the worst
impacts of climate change. Leasing large chunks of our ocean will lock us
into the climate-destroying fossil fuels of the past at a time when we
must rapidly transition away from fossil fuels and toward 100% clean
energy.

And it's even more urgent that we act now to stop new offshore oil
drilling given last week's devastating West Virginia v. EPA Supreme Court
ruling that narrows the EPA's ability to limit climate-busting carbon
emissions from power plants. This ratchets up the pressure to limit
pollution anywhere and everywhere we can.

[ [link removed] ]Will you call on the Biden administration to commit to NO new leases —
before it's too late?

Thanks for continuing to fight with us.

Sincerely,

Lauren Kubiak
Senior Advisor, NRDC Action Fund



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