Green Groups Sue Over 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 and the people who rely on healthy, thriving oceans,” said Joseph Gordon, Oceana campaign director, in a press release from the Center for Biological Diversity.