Tell BOEM that we reject their plans to open 90% of our coasts to drilling!

We can’t let this happen on our watch.

This month, the Trump administration proposed opening 90% of US waters to offshore drilling between 2019 and 2024. That’s right — if this plan becomes law, the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, and Eastern Gulf coasts will all be in the hands of Big Oil. That means oil rigs from Maine to Louisiana, and from Alaska down to California.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is collecting comments on this catastrophic new five-year plan. We have until March 9 to tell them how unpopular and short-sighted this plan is.

While they attempt to hand our coasts over to oil companies, Trump and his buddies are also rushing to dismantle safety regulations that were enacted after the Deepwater Horizon spill.¹ And on New Year’s Day, Congress also failed to renew a longstanding oil tax that funds cleanup efforts for oil spills.²

It almost sounds too sinister to be true — they want to open 90% of our coasts to drilling but won’t enforce basic safety standards or fund programs to clean up the inevitable spills.

Tell BOEM that the people have spoken — no drilling off our coasts!

Thanks for all you do to protect our coasts,

Lena Moffitt
Senior Director, Our Wild America Campaign
Sierra Club

1. Eilperin, Juliet and Grandoni, Dino. “Trump administration to overhaul safety-monitoring rules for offshore drilling” The Washington Post. 12/28/18.

2. Eilperin, Juliet and Grandoni, Dino. “Without fanfare, oil companies just received a tax break on New Year’s Day” The Washington Post. 1/5/18.