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The SAVE Right Whales Act comes at a pivotal point in the fight to save the right whale from extinction. Right whales have been experiencing a precipitous decline since 2010 and fewer than 340 whales now remain. 

The Department of the Interior has released its much-anticipated report on how it plans to reform federal oil and gas leasing and permitting.

This morning, the Biden administration held the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history. Though the Biden administration has been bold on climate in other ways, this latest action is profoundly disappointing.

House Democrats are working to hold the oil and gas industry accountable for its harm to the environment and public health. Over the last ten days, they’ve held a committee markup, a hearing, and a field hearing.

We have to transition away from fossil fuels. That’s why it’s essential that Congress pass budget reconciliation with offshore drilling provisions—and enact President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.

The Biden Administration recently began to move forward with an offshore lease sale that will hand millions of acres of public ocean over to the oil and gas industry, allowing them to make investments that will lock in our use…

Continuing to offer more offshore oil lease sales is not the path to meeting the Biden Administration’s climate goals.

The benefit of taking comprehensive climate action isn’t just curtailing carbon dioxide emissions released into the atmosphere. Climate action also prevents excess carbon dioxide from dissolving in our ocean. This process, known as ocean acidification, needs to continue to be…

With the reintroduction of the Ocean Based Climate Solutions Act (H.R. 3764), the House Natural Resources Committee, led by Chair Grijalva, continues to drive the conversation on the essential role the ocean plays in addressing the climate crisis. The Committee…

The way we lease and extract oil and gas from our public lands and waters is broken, and our ability to stave off the worst impacts of climate change depends, in part, on fixing it now.

The Biden administration has taken huge strides in acting on climate and should now move forward to take one of the most important actions to protect the ocean and those who depend on it, and to combat the climate crisis…

Chair Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) has reintroduced the Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act, the type of visionary bill we need for this moment, recognizing that the ocean is a powerful source of solutions to the climate crisis. 

President Biden is poised to right one of the great wrongs of the previous administration by fully restoring protections to these vital natural areas.

Recent House and Senate hearings on the future of offshore oil and gas leasing raised questions about how best to phase out leasing of our federal waters to oil and gas companies.

Offshore oil and gas leasing poses a threat to our coastal economies and the health of our ocean. Citizens, local communities, and elected officials from both parties recognize this danger and have been vocal in their opposition to new leasing…