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'Belly Flop': With Only One Percent of Leases Sold, Even Fossil Fuel Industry Understands Trump's Offshore Drilling Plan Is Ridiculous

Investors Controlling $2.5 Trillion Stand With Indigenous People Against Trump Plan to Drill 'Sacred' Arctic Refuge

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Any oil company or bank that supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...would be associated with trampling on human rights, destroying one of the world’s last remaining intact wild places, and contributing to the climate crisis."

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

Julia Conley, staff writer

Six years after the deadly Deepwater Horizon spill, oil giant claimed such...

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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...

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

BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill

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

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

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Greenpeace

Greenpeace Block Barclays’ HQ Over Dirty Oil Pipeline Funding

Earthjustice

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Expansion of Gulf of Mexico Drilling

Earthjustice

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration for Failing to Protect Gulf of Mexico Wildlife from Offshore Drilling

Sierra Club

At Annual Meeting, Groups Urge Chevron to Stay Away From the Arctic Refuge

Center for Biological Diversity

Trump Administration Proposes Rollback of Offshore-drilling Safety Regulations

Center for Biological Diversity

Trump Administration Ignores Deepwater Horizon Lessons on Eve of Anniversary

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Charles P. Pierce

Climate Change Destroys the Lives of the Poorest Human Beings First

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

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David Turnbull

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Jason Schwartz

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