Environmentalists File Suit Over Trump Reversal Of Offshore Drilling Bar

Environmental groups are filing suit over President Donald Trump’s move to lift a Biden-era prohibition of oil and gas drilling on wide swaths of the outer continental shelf (OCS), asserting that such leasing withdrawals cannot be lifted by a subsequent administration. “Trump’s executive order is an unlawful giveaway to the fossil fuel industry that puts marine ecosystems, coastal economies, and the climate at risk,” said Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Executive Director Christy Goldfuss in a Feb. 19 statement announcing...