Stop Stiffing Taxpayers to Enrich Oil and Gas Bidders
Senator Tester introduces bill to end concompetitive leasing on BLM lands. ...
Expert Blog
The latest opinion and analysis from NRDC’s science, legal, and policy experts.
Barreling in the Wrong Direction, a Decade After Deepwater
Ten years ago, people all over the U.S. gasped in horror, glued to news broadcasts trained on the fallout from a massive oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico...
Bail Out the American Public, Not Big Oil
The Interior Department should reject calls to grant royalty relief and other favors to the oil and gas industry in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such a b...
Virginia Is for Ocean Lovers: House Votes to Block Drilling
My fellow Virginians and I today are celebrating the passage of a bill that will help protect Virginia’s communities and coastal economy from the risky busine...
Offshore Oil Revenue: A Bad Deal for Virginia
If offshore drilling were expanded as the Trump administration intends, coastal communities, economies, and ecosystems would all suffer. And revenue sharing is ...
Public Lands’ Fossil Fuels & Climate Change
Fossil fuel production has been an unmitigated environmental disaster for our public lands and waters. Coal mining and oil and gas drilling have irreparably des...