Sierra Club Statement on New Federal Protections for U.S. Oceans
Jan 6, 2025 · The memorandum withdraws 625 million acres from leasing, including the entire eastern Atlantic coast; the eastern Gulf of Mexico; the U.S. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the White House announced new protections for millions of acres of …
Rice’s Whales, the IRA, and Energy Expansion | Sierra Club
Apr 23, 2024 · One of the areas that shows both the promise and the peril of the IRA, and how quickly it has been politicized, is the issue of oil and gas leasing and leasing for offshore wind in the Western Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas and Louisiana.
Lawsuit Spurs Agreement to Better Protect Endangered Rice ... - Sierra Club
BALTIMORE, MD — Under a settlement agreement approved today in the U.S. District Court in Maryland, federal agencies will seek better ways to protect the Rice’s whale – a critically endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico — and other imperiled marine species from harmful oil …
Sierra Club v. National Marine Fisheries Service
Sierra Club and three other organizations challenged the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS's) issuance of a programmatic biological opinion that governed oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico.
provide information to lessees and operators in the Gulf of Mexico concerning the Rice’s whale and reduce or eliminate possible disturbance to the species. The first is a document entitled,
Court Orders Government to Protect Rare Gulf Whales, Sea …
Aug 20, 2024 · “The court’s ruling requires the National Marine Fisheries Service to fix its flawed analysis of the effects of offshore fossil fuel development on endangered whales, rare turtles, and vital Gulf of Mexico ecosystems upon which these species’ survival depends,” said Sierra Club Senior Attorney Devorah Ancel. “Now the agency has a ...
Nearly four years ago, the nonprofit environmental organizations Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, and Turtle Island Restoration Network filed this lawsuit challenging the legality of a National Marine Fisheries Service (“NMFS”) biological opinion
U.S. federal judge orders increased protection of marine life from …
Aug 22, 2024 · At the urging of the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and other green groups, a United States federal judge has thrown out a National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) assessment governing how...
The Biden Administration Delivers for America’s Coastal …
Jan 10, 2025 · That is true for those of us who live along the water and those who live hundreds of miles from any ocean. Regardless of our generation, we can all picture what it looks like. For some, it is the 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. For others, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill by BP in the Gulf of Mexico. No matter what disaster comes to ...
Sierra Club v. National Marine Fisheries Service
A district court granted environmental groups' motion to lift a stay of a suit challenging NMFS' biological opinion (BiOp) concerning oil and gas activity in the Gulf of Mexico. The groups initially argued NMFS issued a flawed BiOp that underestimated the risks of …