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Green groups sue over Trump moves to expand offshore drilling

Green advocacy groups filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration, focusing on its plan to expand offshore drilling in U.S. Waters.
The lawsuits challenge Trump's order revoking protections for 265 million acres from fossil fuel leasing.
Critics claim that rolling back protections jeopardizes ocean health, stating that the lawsuits might be the first of many against the Trump administration.

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NationofChange

Environmental groups sue Trump over offshore drilling expansion threatening coastal waters

Conservationists challenge Trump’s executive orders to revoke ocean protections, warning of devastating impacts on marine ecosystems, coastal economies, and the fight against climate change.

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Mother Jones

Climate groups sue over Trump's orders to expand offshore drilling

The two lawsuits are his new administration’s first environmental legal challenges.

1 day ago·United States

Green Groups Sue Trump Over Proposed Oil and Gas Drilling in Protected Waters

Conservation groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity, Oceana, Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council, filed two separate lawsuits against the Trump administration on Wednesday. Both complaints focus on the administration’s moves to open more of the nation’s waters to drilling for oil and gas. “President Trump’s executive order would roll back millions of acres of ocean protection, jeopardizing our coastal economies an…

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Anchorage Daily News

Environmental groups sue to stop Trump effort to expand offshore drilling

The litigation targets President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order seeking to expand U.S. offshore oil and gas drilling in the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

2 days ago·Anchorage, United States

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Hawaii Tribune-Herald

Environmental groups sue to block Trump’s offshore drilling expansions - Hawaii Tribune-Herald

Environmental groups on Wednesday moved in court to block President Donald Trump’s administration from allowing offshore oil drilling along broad swaths of U.S. coastline, in what appeared to be the first legal challenges to the Republicans’ efforts to boost fossil fuel production.

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OC Register

Surfrider, environmental groups sue Trump administration over oil protections

A coalition of conservation organizations has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in an attempt to stop it from allowing more drilling off the country’s coasts, including in California. The group said it is challenging President Donald Trump’s “illegal order to open protected areas of the ocean to future oil and gas leasing.” Among those in the suit is the San Clemente-based Surfrider Foundation, which contends that offshore drillin…

3 days ago·Orange County, United States

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