'Every new well pushes us closer to climate catastrophe,' says Kristen Monsell of the Center for Biological Diversity.
"Interior must stop permitting all new drilling activity in the Gulf of Mexico unless and until it conducts the comprehensive NEPA analysis mandated by law."
"Without taking the hard look NEPA demands," the filing says that"Interior cannot reasonably determine whether new drilling activity meets the substantive standards of OCSLA, such as whether it will 'cause serious harm or damage to life . . . or to the marine, coastal, or human environment'; whether new drilling will be 'consistent with . . . national needs'; and whether sufficient 'environmental safeguards' are in place for these activities.
"Yet—in the last year alone," the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement"have approved hundreds of exploration plans, development plans, and drilling permits throughout the Gulf of Mexico without properly studying the climate impacts of doing so."
Not only would stopping the permits"help protect our climate, wildlife, and frontline communities while the administration develops a plan to phase out fossil fuel extraction in federal waters," states the filing, it would mark"one important step towards transforming our extractive economy to a regenerative and inclusive one in a manner that dismantles systemic racism and advances environmental, racial, and economic justice.
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