{"id":41316,"date":"2025-02-19T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oceana.org\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=41316"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T20:26:35","slug":"groups-file-first-environmental-lawsuit-vs-new-trump-administration-challenging-illegal-order-to-undo-ocean-protections-from-offshore-drilling","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/oceana.org\/press-releases\/groups-file-first-environmental-lawsuit-vs-new-trump-administration-challenging-illegal-order-to-undo-ocean-protections-from-offshore-drilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups File First Environmental Lawsuit Vs. New Trump Administration, Challenging Illegal Order to Undo Ocean Protections from Offshore Drilling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, groups concerned about the threats from offshore drilling filed the first environmental legal challenge against the new Trump administration.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/document\/groups-file-first-environmental-lawsuit-vs-new-trump-administration\">One group<\/a>&nbsp;is challenging&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions\/\">an illegal order<\/a>&nbsp;by President Trump to revoke former President Biden\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/press\/2025\/earthjustice-applauds-white-house-withdrawal-of-american-offshore-territory-from-future-oil-and-gas-development\">withdrawal of vulnerable areas of the ocean<\/a>&nbsp;from future oil-and-gas leasing.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/document\/reinstating-2019-12a-ruling\">Another set of groups<\/a>&nbsp;is taking a related action asking a court to reinstate a federal court ruling that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/feature\/inside-legal-case-judge-nixed-trump-attempt-drill-arctic-atlantic\">invalidated an attempt<\/a>&nbsp;by the first Trump administration to undo Obama-era offshore protections. President Trump has attempted to open nearly the entire Arctic Ocean to drilling by reviving his first-term order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Biden protected areas off the Eastern Gulf, Atlantic, Pacific, and Alaska coasts by invoking his authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. The law authorizes the president to withdraw offshore areas from oil and gas leasing, as eight administrations, including the first Trump administration, have routinely done. However, the law does not authorize the president to revoke the withdrawals of prior presidents, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lcv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/80-Order-granting-MSJ.pdf?_gl=1*masgr2*_gcl_au*MTU0NDAwMzYzOS4xNzM2OTcxMzQ0\">a federal court confirmed<\/a>&nbsp;when Trump attempted to undo Obama-era protections for the Arctic Ocean and portions of the Atlantic oceans during his first term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the new case, Earthjustice is representing Oceana, Center for Biological Diversity, the Surfrider Foundation, Greenpeace, Healthy Gulf, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Alaska Wilderness League, and Turtle Island Restoration Network. Plaintiffs Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council are each representing themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plaintiffs in the related litigation to reinstate protections for the Arctic and parts of the Atlantic include League of Conservation Voters, Defenders of Wildlife, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Greenpeace, and Alaska Wilderness League. These groups are represented by Earthjustice and Natural Resources Defense Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s executive order would roll back millions of acres of ocean protection, jeopardizing our coastal economies and the people who rely on healthy, thriving oceans,\u201d said&nbsp;<strong>Oceana Campaign Director Joseph Gordon.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cLeaders in both political parties, thousands of businesses, and millions of Americans support permanently protecting our coasts from offshore drilling. We are confident the court will continue to uphold the bipartisan tradition of presidents safeguarding these coastlines and protecting the people who live and work among them.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe defeated Trump the first time he tried to roll back protections and sacrifice more of our waters to the oil industry. We\u2019re bringing this abuse of the law to the courts again,\u201d said&nbsp;<strong>Earthjustice managing attorney for oceans Steve Mashuda.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cTrump is illegally trying to take away protections vital to coastal communities that rely on clean, healthy oceans for safe living conditions, thriving economies, and stable ecosystems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProtecting the eastern Gulf has long been a bipartisan effort in Florida,\u201d said&nbsp;<strong>Martha Collins, Executive Director of Healthy Gulf<\/strong>. President Trump used the same authority as President Biden to protect the eastern Gulf and Florida coastline from offshore oil and gas. President Biden simply made those protections permanent, something President Trump did not do. President Trump has now shown he could care less about protecting the eastern Gulf or Florida. Unfortunately we have to file suit to stand up against the rash and inconsistent policies of the Trump Administration to enforce what both FL Republicans and Democrats have fought for years on. Permanent protections from offshore oil and gas in Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t have to file this suit again because President Trump already lost the last time he tried this,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>said Gene Karpinski, President of League of Conservation Voters<\/strong>&nbsp;which led a coalition of groups\u2019&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcv.org\/media-center\/victory-lcv-v-trump-judge-blocks-offshore-drilling-arctic-atlantic\/\">successful challenge<\/a>&nbsp;in the first Trump administration. \u201cWe are signaling to Congress, the President and the people of this country our commitment to defending already-protected coastal communities and waters from risky and dirty offshore drilling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s putting our oceans, marine wildlife and coastal communities at risk of devastating oil spills and we need the courts to rein in his utter contempt for the law,\u201d said&nbsp;<strong>Kristen Monsell, oceans legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity<\/strong>. \u201cOffshore oil drilling is destructive from start to finish. Opening up more public waters to the oil industry for short-term gain and political points is a reprehensible and irresponsible way to manage our precious ocean ecosystems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOffshore drilling is a dirty and damaging practice that is a direct threat to our thriving ocean recreation economy. Offshore drilling is also broadly unpopular and opposed by a majority of Americans who want to protect our nation\u2019s coasts from oil and gas development. The Surfrider Foundation is pleased to join partners in challenging President Trump\u2019s illegal order to revoke critical protections for U.S. waters,\u201d said&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Chad Nelsen, CEO of the Surfrider Foundation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLiving on the Gulf coast, I have seen first-hand the harmful impacts to people and places by the oil and gas industry,\u201d said&nbsp;<strong>Joanie Steinhaus, Ocean Program Director for Turtle Island Restoration Network<\/strong>. \u201cThe western and central Gulf of Mexico has long been a sacrifice zone to place profit over people and our coast, and we will stand with our partners to ensure the protection of the fragile ocean ecosystem from the Trump administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have seen the impact of offshore drilling on our vulnerable ocean waters, and what it does to the surrounding communities, marine life, and the health of the ecosystem,\u201d said&nbsp;<strong>Sierra Club Senior Attorney Devorah Ancel<\/strong>. \u201cWhen nearly 40 percent of Americans live in coastal counties that rely on a healthy ocean to thrive, removing critical protections shows how little care Trump has for these communities. Trump tried this illegal move to undo protections during his first administration, and he failed. We will keep working to ensure he won\u2019t be any more successful this time around.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Arctic Ocean has been protected from U.S. drilling for nearly a decade, and those protections have been affirmed by the federal courts,\u201d said&nbsp;<strong>Sierra Weaver, senior attorney at Defenders of Wildlife<\/strong>. \u201cThough these coastlines have been protected, the administration is showing no restraint in seeking to hand off some of our most fragile and pristine landscapes for the oil industry\u2019s profit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s executive order is an unlawful giveaway to the fossil fuel industry that puts marine ecosystems, coastal economies, and the climate at risk,\u201d<strong>&nbsp;said Christy Goldfuss, Executive Director at NRDC.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cThe law is clear: once a president permanently withdraws ocean areas from oil and gas leasing, those protections cannot simply be undone. With the Trump administration aggressively dismantling environmental safeguards, the courts will be a crucial backstop. When Trump puts polluters over the law, we\u2019ll see him in court.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earthjustice is representing Oceana, Center for Biological Diversity, the Surfrider Foundation, Greenpeace, Healthy Gulf, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Alaska Wilderness League, and Turtle Island Restoration Network. Plaintiffs Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council are each representing themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plaintiffs in the related litigation to reinstate Arctic protections include League of Conservation Voters, Defenders of Wildlife, Natural Resources Defense Council, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Greenpeace, and Alaska Wilderness League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Background&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January, former president Biden permanently protected the entire eastern U.S. Atlantic coast, or approximately 269 million acres of the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) from Canada to the southern tip of Florida; 65 million acres of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico; nearly 250 million acres of Federal waters off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California; and 44 million acres in the Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area in Alaska. Earlier in his administration, Biden also protected 2.8 million acres of the Beaufort Sea and reinstated protections of 125 million acres in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as well as 3.8 million acres of canyon areas in the north and mid-Atlantic that Trump attempted to undo in his first administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly 400 municipalities and over 2,300 elected officials across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts have formally opposed the expansion of offshore drilling in these areas.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/upiy2zpjlj4y8q6x2r1f0\/NGO-permanent-protections-letter.pdf?rlkey=6nwmakter67njyatpeyerr6ks&amp;e=1&amp;st=6w8a0foc&amp;dl=0\">&nbsp;Hundreds of organizations<\/a>&nbsp;and lawmakers supported the President taking this action. Nearly every Governor along the East and West coasts \u2013 Republican and Democrat alike \u2013 has expressed concerns about expanded oil and gas drilling off their coastlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, despite false claims that the Biden protections would disturb U.S. energy security, those withdrawals leave open most of the Gulf of Mexico for oil leasing, where nearly all<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boem.gov\/regions\/gulf-mexico-ocs-region\/oil-and-gas-gulf-mexico\">&nbsp;<\/a>of U.S. offshore drilling occurs. Moreover, the oil industry already has an excess under lease in the Gulf and the U.S. is currently producing<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/todayinenergy\/detail.php?id=61545\">&nbsp;more oil than any nation in history<\/a>&nbsp;and is also the world\u2019s largest producer of gas. Rather than opening whole new areas to drilling, both climate change and justice demand that we finally reduce the amount of leasing and drilling in the Gulf, where communities have too long borne the brunt of the harm caused by offshore drilling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":12514,"template":"","campaign":[185],"ppma_author":[394],"class_list":["post-41316","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","campaign-offshore-drilling","infinite-scroll-item"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.1 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Groups File First Environmental Lawsuit Vs. 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