It's a rare bright spot for environmentalists during the Trump administration.
Offshore workers stand aboard one of Chevron's deepwater oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana. By Dino Grandoni Dino Grandoni Reporter covering energy and environmental policy Email Bio Follow April 25 at 4:49 PM A recent federal court decision appears to have struck a blow to President Trump’s plans to expand offshore oil and natural gas drilling across the U.S. continental shelf, with the aim of turning the United States into an energy-exporting behemoth.
With the appeals process in the case expected to drag on for months, if not years, Bernhardt suggested any plan his department crafts now would have to be rewritten by the time the dust settles over the suit. In the meantime, the administration’s plans to offer oil and gas drilling leases in these areas are now stalled.“What if you guess wrong?” Bernhardt added of the uncertainties surrounding the case. “I’m not sure that’s a very satisfactory and responsible use of resources.
The ruling out of Alaska is the latest is a series of legal losses by the Trump administration as it tries to trim environmental regulations and expand fossil-fuel use. “It does show that this sort of litigation is having an impact on their decision-making,” said Sierra Club senior attorney Devorah Ancel, who has worked on offshore drilling cases for the group.
“Every single governor from Maine to Florida and from Washington to California oppose offshore drilling off their coast," said Collin O’Mara, president and chief executive of the National Wildlife Federation. “Every single one. Republican and Democrat alike.” “It’s fair to say seismic air gun blasting is extremely loud and disruptive ... is that correct?” Rep. Joe Cunningham asked an Interior official last month before blasting off an air horn inside a House hearing room.
By March, Zinke backtracked further by expressing doubt that oil and gas exploration would happen in the Pacific.
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