YOUR opportunity to determine where risky offshore oil drilling will or won’t be allowed is happening RIGHT NOW and ends on June 16, 2025.

Trump’s pending “Request for Information” as he plans his new offshore drilling sites reveals that EVERYTHING is now on the table for consideration.  His potential drilling targets include America’s prime fisheries, productive ocean upwellings, and even our fragile National Marine Sanctuaries in which offshore drilling has always been permanently prohibited.  No coastline is exempt.

Just click here to submit your comment….

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/30/2025-07479/request-for-information-and-comments-on-the-preparation-of-the-11th-national-outer-continental-shelf#open-comment

Then just enter your comment, what your comment is about, upload files you wish to share, indicate whether you’re an organization or an individual, and include your email, which will not be posted publicly.

Ironically, this solicitation of comments about new offshore drilling comes even while the Trump Administration dismantles support for safely plugging disused spent oil wells, curtails our transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy for transportation, and pushes for drilling along Florida’s Gulf Coast.  The current public comment period also coincidentally takes place just as the new May 2025 blowout from an old never-plugged wellhead started spewing toxic oil into fragile sea turtle habitat at Louisiana’s Garden Island Bay in the Pass-a-Loutre Wildlife Management Area. This lingering oil spill threatens black terns, bottlenose dolphins, larval yellowfin tuna, marsh birds, spring pogies, and young fish migrating into the estuaries for spring growth, as well as the shrimp fishery.  Meanwhile, CBS News reports that due to Trump-imposed cuts to critical agency personnel, “the equivalent of 27,000 years of NOAA experience are walking out the door this week with early retirement.”

In soliciting these comments from the petroleum lobby and the public, the Trump Administration is now hoping to ignore President Biden’s irrevocable January 6, 2025 Executive Order permanently protecting the entire Atlantic Coast, the Gulf Coast of Florida, and the waters off of Washington, Oregon and California, as well as portions of Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea, from new offshore oil leases. As we acknowledge this 15^th Anniversary of the tragic Deepwater Horizon offshore rig disaster, thank you for submitting comments on where new offshore drilling should or should not occur.

[ If you prefer to comment by U.S. Mail, just send an envelope labeled “Comments for the 11^th National OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program” to Ms. Kelly Hammerle, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (VAM-LD), 45600 Woodland Road, Sterling, VA 20166-9216.  For detailed tips on how to write effective comments, click here. ]

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