Sarah Chasis, a senior attorney in the Nature Program’s Oceans division, has nearly 50 years of experience defending our coasts from offshore drilling.
WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court unanimously ruled today that presidents have the authority under the Antiquities Act of 1906 to establish marine national monuments.
The federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., is poised to decide the fate of America’s first marine national monument in the U.S. Atlantic Ocean: the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.
Over one-third of marine mammals and nearly one-third of sharks, shark relatives, and reef-forming corals are threatened with extinction, according to a new report released today on the state of global biodiversity.
Our federal lands represent an intergenerational trust held for all of us, for all time. President Trump and his Interior Secretary are violating that trust, aggressively promoting reckless wholesale drilling that runs squarely against the public interest.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo today announced his state’s opposition to the Trump administration’s proposal to expand oil and gas leasing to nearly all of America’s coastlines.
This summer the Trump administration began the process of scrapping the existing Five Year Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program that should have been the final word on drilling off our coasts through the year 2022.
