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An Agency Hijacked: Public Lands and Waters at Risk

Expert BlogDanielle Droitsch
Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke often invokes the image of a modern day Teddy Roosevelt, but TR would be appalled by the polluter-driven, anti-conservation agenda Zinke is dictating.

Commerce to Report on Marine Sanctuaries and Monuments

Expert BlogSarah Chasis
The Commerce Secretary is due to submit a report to White House officials by Wednesday that could call for offshore oil and gas drilling and mineral exploitation in some of our nation’s most precious ocean resources.

Trump Administration Aims to Carve Up National Monuments for Private Profit

Press Release
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke advised President Trump to shrink the boundaries of at least four national monuments, according to a leaked memo he submitted upon concluding an agency review. Zinke also proposed subjecting several of the country’s most treasured public…

North Carolina Joins Fight Against Offshore Drilling

Press Release
WASHINGTON – North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper today said he will oppose the Trump administration’s moves—and efforts by GOP leaders—to open up large swaths of America’s coastlines to oil and gas leasing.

Opposition to Offshore Drilling Comes in Bipartisan Wave

Expert BlogAlexandra Adams, Franz Matzner
The communities, people and businesses that rely on healthy coasts will defend their way of life against the federal government’s shameful readiness to put oil industry profits over people yet again.

Trump Admin Tears up Drilling Plan: Eyes Opening our Coasts

Expert BlogAlexandra Adams
The Trump administration has announced that early next week it will launch the planning process for a new Five-Year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program, with the goal of effectively tearing up the Obama Administration approved program…

Your Marine Monuments Need Your Help!

Expert BlogBrad Sewell
This is World Oceans Month. Which makes it a particularly opportune time to enjoy and appreciate the ocean, whether it’s boating, angling, or walking along the surf. But your oceans also need your help this month. More specifically, your marine…

NRDC, Partners Poised to Defend New England Ocean Monument in Court

Press Release
WASHINGTON – Three environmental groups, along with a naturalist in Maine who leads whale watch tours, are seeking to intervene in a lawsuit challenging President Obama’s creation of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. Fishing groups sued earlier…