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BEHIND EVERY DECISION ARE REAL COMMUNITIES LIVING WITH THE CONSEQUENCES.

The most aggressive oil drilling plan in a decade is moving forward. It threatens our oceans and coastal communities.

DISCOVER THE EXPERIENCE

Tell decision makers our coasts are not for sale.

STOP OFFSHORE DRILLING EXPANSION: PROTECT OUR COASTS, OUR HEALTH, AND OUR FUTURE

We believe the ocean belongs to all of us. It has fed our families, carried our ancestors, and sustained the communities that generations of people have built their lives around. It is not a resource to be auctioned. It is a living system that connects us to the land, to each other, and to the future we are responsible for leaving behind.

The federal government is advancing the most aggressive offshore drilling expansion in U.S. history. 1.27 billion acres opened to 34 new extraction zones across Alaska, California, and the Gulf of Mexico, including areas that have never been drilled before.

This is not an energy plan. It is a giveaway to corporations that already hold more than 11 million acres of unused federal leases and receive $34.8 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies. The U.S. is already the world's top oil producer. More drilling will not lower prices.

The harm is measurable, documented, and falling hardest on those least responsible for it. The Deepwater Horizon spill cost taxpayers more than $15 billion in damages, and Gulf Coast communities are still living with them 15 years later. Electricity prices have risen 13% since this administration took office. America's coastal economy supports 2.6 million jobs and $511 billion in annual output. All of it is at risk. We call on you to:

Stop the Oil and Gas Leasing Program.
Ensure frontline communities are prioritized in all decisions affecting our oceans.
Invest in clean energy and coastal jobs instead of expanding extraction.

The decision to stop this expansion is a decision for the long-term health, prosperity, and resilience of every coastline, every community, and every family that depends on a living ocean. We are asking you to make that decision now, before this window closes.

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A SHARED VISION

Thoughts from leaders working together to build resilient local communities.

“The future of life on America’s coasts depends on us standing up together now to stop the expansion of offshore drilling. We must prevent destructive oil spills and pollution and secure our vital coastal communities, wildlife, and economies that depend on thriving oceans, today and for future generations.”.

Joseph Gordon

Campaign Director | Oceana

“The ocean is one of our most valuable resources, providing ecological, economic, and cultural benefits to the communities across the globe. Offshore drilling continues our reliance on fossil fuels, with detrimental impacts to our ocean and neighboring coastal communities. In order to combat the climate crisis, we must combat efforts to expand offshore drilling and instead seek to increase renewable energy sources.”

Val Schüll

Water & Ocean Program Director | GreenLatinos

“I’ve spent my life working alongside Gulf coastal communities, youth, and Indigenous leaders who understand that healthy oceans mean healthy families, resilient economies, and vibrant cultures. This campaign matters to me because what is at stake is far greater than a drilling lease, it’s the future of our sacred waters, the livelihoods of my people who depend on it, and the legacy we leave to the next generation. Together, we can and will continue to fight to protect the waters that have always protected and provided for us.”

Suraida Nañez-James

CEO/Founder | Gulf Reach Institute

“For the kids and families we work with, the ocean isn’t a commodity, it’s where they play, where they feel like they belong, and where a lot of them come to deal with stress and grief. Many of our young people had never been in the water until Un Mar de Colores. We believe one ocean touches all shores on both sides of the border, so offshore drilling doesn’t just threaten the coast, it threatens the one place that has given our community real belonging and healing. It takes from a sea that already gives us everything.”

Mario Ordoñez-Calderón

Executive Director | Mar de Colores

“Expanding offshore drilling is yet another giveaway to Big Oil CEOs, who will continue to rake in massive profits while coastal communities are left to shoulder the costs. Local families won’t see a dime of those profits, but they will bear the risks of oil spills, toxic pollution, and lasting environmental damage. Once again, the Trump administration is putting the interests of its Big Oil donors ahead of the health, economic security, and future of American communities.”

Jessica Ordóñez Lancet

Senior director of Energy and Environment Campaigns | Center for American Progress.

“The Trump Administration is handing over our costs to the oil industry. Our comunidades in Alaska, California, and the Gulf will pay the price first: polluted air and water, disappearing wildlife, and a climate that keeps getting hotter, while corporations cash the checks. We don’t have another 90 days to waste debating whether clean energy is the future; it already is, and every lease sale we allow only delays the transition our families need now.”

Antonieta Cadiz

Executive Director | Climate Power en Accion

“We are witnessing a wholesale liquidation of America’s natural heritage. By attempting to force offshore drilling onto our coasts, Donald Trump is telling us that our oceans, our beaches, and our marine life are entirely for sale to the highest bidder. It is a reckless gamble that is overwhelmingly unpopular from coast to coast. Millions of Americans are standing up to say our natural resources are not bargaining chips for corporate donors.”

Angelo Villagomez

Senior Fellow | Center for American Progress

Different voices, one shared reality: offshore expansion threatens our oceans and the communities that depend on them. There is still time to act.

OFFSHORE EXPANSION BEGINS WITH DECISIONS MADE FAR AWAY FROM THE COMMUNITIES LIVING WITH THE CONSEQUENCES.

2.6 Million Jobs

Depend on fishing, tourism, and coastal economies.

Source: NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

1.27 Billion Marine Acres

Could be opened to new offshore drilling.

Source: BOEM (Bureau of Ocean Energy Management).

90% of the Planet’s Excess Heat

Is absorbed by the ocean.

Source: IPCC (UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and NASA.

Coastal Communities

Latino and Black communities will be the first to feel the consequences.

Source: The EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) and studies by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

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