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'Callously Indifferent' BP Argued Oil Spills Would Provide 'Welcome Boost' to Coastal Economy

An 'Oil-Soaked Nightmare': New Analysis Shows Trump's Offshore Drilling Plan Could Mean Over 5,000 Spills

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Demonstators take part in a "Hands Across the Sand" protest in Florida in 2014. (Photo: AstronomyGal/flickr/cc)

"No president has ever pushed a drilling plan that would do so much damage along so many American coastlines. It's really astonishing."

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As Florida Gets Drilling Exemption, Former WH Ethics Chief Accuses Trump of Creating 'Banana Republic'

Julia Conley, staff writer

"If it looks to you like the administration is using federal policymaking as a...

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Trump Administration Condemned for Plan to 'Recklessly' Expand Offshore Drilling

Jessica Corbett & Julia Conley, staff writers

BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill

A new proposal "continues the Trump administration's all-out assault on public...

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In Bid to Save Big Oil $900M, Trump Moves to Scrap Offshore Drilling Safety Rules

Green Groups Vow to Fight Trump's "Reckless Giveaway to Big Oil"

'Incredible Victory': Obama Bans Drilling in Parts of Arctic and Atlantic

Scientists Call on Obama to Enact Trump-Proof Arctic Drilling Ban

In Day of Action, Activists Demand Obama Cancel Oil Leases in Gulf

Gulf Residents Arrested Telling Obama: More Drilling Equals More Floods

Hundreds of Scientists Urge Obama to End Arctic Drilling for 'Foreseeable Future'

Banks Driving Climate Chaos with Hundreds of Billions in Extreme Energy Financing

The Cost to You and Me of Proposed Offshore Drilling? $179.2 Billion

California Back in Big Oil's Crosshairs as Feds Quietly OK Offshore Fracking

"Nature Won't Wait": Break Free 2016 Begins with UK Coal Mine Occupation

Obama's Offshore Drilling Proposal Based on Fossil Fuel Industry Research

Newswire

Center for Biological Diversity

Trump Administration Ignores Deepwater Horizon Lessons on Eve of Anniversary

Public Citizen

Environmental Safety Bureau Chief Took Political Contributions From Industry He Now Regulates

Earthjustice

Court Allows Conservation and Alaska Native Groups to Challenge Trump’s Reversal of Arctic and Atlantic Drilling Ban

Environment America

Eastern Coastal Mayors and Elected Leaders Oppose Offshore Drilling, Urge Greater Protection of Our Oceans

Oceana

New Economic Analysis Finds Trump Administration’s Offshore Drilling Plan Threatens 2.6 Million Jobs and Nearly $180 Billion in GDP

Earthjustice

Conservation Groups Challenge Illegal Western Arctic Lease Sales in Court

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Views

Andy Rowell

Coast Guard Responders 'Harmed by Chemicals Used to Clean Up BP’s Spill'

Subhankar Banerjee

The Last Oil: Gathering to Resist Trump’s Reckless Arctic Energy Policy

Sue Sturgis

Trump's Offshore Drilling Plan Flouts Law by Ignoring Governors' Wishes

Sue Sturgis

The Energy Lobbyists Linked to Trump's Offshore Drilling Plans

Adam Markham

Nine Questions for Ryan Zinke, Donald Trump’s Pick to Lead the Interior Department

Arlie Hochschild

Donald Trump in the Bayou

David Turnbull

The American Petroleum Institute’s Desperate PR is Failing

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

Climate Change’s Iniquitous Transmission of Urgency: The Gulf South

Jason Schwartz

Don’t Look Now, But There Was Just a Mass Exodus of Oil Companies From the Arctic

Sue Sturgis

Another Gulf Oil Spill Adds Fuel to Movement Against New Offshore Drilling Leases

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