Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
Faced with a rapidly warming world that is hurtling toward terrifying tipping points, climate groups on Monday filed a lawsuit over the Biden administration's five-year plan for offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico—and so did the fossil fuel industry. Both suits target the 2024-29 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. When the plan was finalized in December, the U.S.
'It is time for us to transition away from these industries, not enable further drilling in the years to come.' In addition to emphasizing the dangers of what Oceana campaign director Joseph Gordon called a 'deadly cycle of drilling and spilling,' the climate and Gulf groups represented by Earthjustice also slammed the API suit, which Brad Sewell of the Natural Resources Defense Council described as 'unfounded and unwarranted.
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