Sign up for our newsletter.

Quality journalism. Progressive values. Direct to your inbox.

Follow us:

Join the small group of generous readers who donate, keeping Common Dreams free for millions of people each year. Every donation—large or small—helps us bring you the news that matters.

Please support non-profit Common Dreams today.

To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page.

Dear Common Dreams Readers:
Corporations and billionaires have their own media. Shouldn't we? When you “follow the money” that funds our independent journalism, it all leads back to this: people like you. Our supporters are what allows us to produce journalism in the public interest that is beholden only to people, our planet, and the common good. Please support our Mid-Year Campaign so that we always have a newsroom for the people that is funded by the people. Thank you for your support. --Jon Queally, managing editor

To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page.

To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page.

Join the small group of generous readers who donate, keeping Common Dreams free for millions of people each year. Without your help, we won’t survive.

To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page.

Offshore Drilling

A North Atlantic right whale and calf seen on March 22, 2019.

Huge Victory for Ocean Defenders as Seismic Blasting Halted in Atlantic

"Seismic blasting harms whales in the search for offshore oil that we should leave in the ground."

Andrea Germanos ·

The U.S. Coast Guard conducts a controlled burn of oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform, which exploded on April 20, 2010 and spilled 168 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. (Photo: Justin E. Stumberg / U.S. Navy via Getty Images)

Ten Years After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, We’re on Course to Repeat One of Our Worst Mistakes

In the past few years, the Trump administration has signaled that it wants to vastly expand offshore drilling, including lifting drilling bans in parts of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.

Tara Lohan ·

U.S. Coast Guard crews work to put out a fire during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. (Photo: U.S. Coast Guard)

Decade After BP Deepwater Horizon, Green Groups Demand: End Fossil Fuels 'Once and for All'

Ten years after the nation's worst oil disaster, the impacts remain, but the Trump adminstration moves to expand dangerous drilling. 

Andrea Germanos ·

10 Years After BP's Deepwater Horizon Offshore Catastrophe—Worst Spill in History—and Nothing Learned, Says New Report

"If anything, another disaster is more likely today as the oil industry drills deeper and farther offshore."

Andrea Germanos ·

'Surprised, No. Disgusted, Yes': Study Shows Deepwater Horizon Oil Spread Much Farther Than Previously Known

"Time to get off fossil fuel and on to renewables."

Julia Conley ·

"Since day one, Secretary Bernhardt has operated as though Interior was his own personal lobby shop by doling out favors for his former clients with impunity," said Jayson O’Neill, deputy director of Western Values Project

As Nation Transfixed by Impeachment, Trump Quietly Provides Offshore Drilling Industry 'Sweetheart Giveaway'

Former lobbyist turned Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, says critic, probably assumed gift "to his former oil and gas client would slip by unnoticed."

Andrea Germanos ·

'Definition of Insane Greed': Investing Billions in New Projects, Fossil Fuel Corporations Undermining World's Climate Targets

"These dirty fossil fuel companies are not getting the message, let alone acting on the urgency of the climate crisis."

Julia Conley ·

'Recipe for Disaster': Trump Guts Offshore Drilling Rules Put in Place After Deepwater Horizon Spill

"We should be implementing new safety reforms, not rolling back the few safety measures currently in place."

Jake Johnson ·

Industrial ocean fish farm in Atlantic Ocean Canary Islands. (Photo: Video Blocks.)

Your Tax Dollars at Work

The Trump administration just created a map showing mega-corporations where they should industrialize the ocean next

Hallie Templeton ·

Pumpjacks on Lost Hills Oil Field in California on Route 46.

Groups Warn Against Trump Effort to Unleash 'Fracking Frenzy' by Unlocking Million+ Acres of Public Land for Drilling

"There's no place for this backwards plan in California's clean energy future."

Eoin Higgins ·

Sign up for our newsletter.

Quality journalism. Progressive values. Direct to your inbox.

Common Dreams Logo

To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page.