{"id":137637,"date":"2025-02-20T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/environmental-groups-sue-to-block-trumps-offshore-drilling-expansions\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T09:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:15:13","slug":"environmental-groups-sue-to-block-trumps-offshore-drilling-expansions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/environmental-groups-sue-to-block-trumps-offshore-drilling-expansions\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental groups sue to block Trump\u2019s offshore drilling expansions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137637\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Environmental groups on Wednesday moved in court to block President Donald Trump\u2019s administration from allowing offshore oil drilling along broad swaths of U.S. coastline, in what appeared to be the first legal challenges to the Republicans\u2019 efforts to boost fossil fuel production.<\/p>\n<p>A new lawsuit seeks to block Trump from revoking former President Joe Biden\u2019s ban on offshore drilling in certain coastal areas, while a new filing in a case from the first Trump administration seeks to reinstate prohibitions against drilling in 128 million acres of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Biden banned new offshore oil and gas development along most U.S. coastlines ahead of Trump taking office, though the move was considered mostly symbolic because it did not impact areas where drilling was already underway and mainly covered zones lacking important development prospects. Trump sought to undo that move as part of a flurry of executive orders within hours of his inauguration aimed at boosting the nation&#8217;s already record-high oil and gas production and unwinding Biden&#8217;s climate agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The Wednesday legal challenges, filed in Alaska federal court, are the first legal challenges to Trump\u2019s environmental policies, according to the groups that filed them. \u201cWe defeated Trump the first time he tried to roll back protections and sacrifice more of our waters to the oil industry. We\u2019re bringing this abuse of the law to the courts again,\u201d Steve Mashuda of the advocacy group Earthjustice said in a statement. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In the new lawsuit, the Northern Alaska Environmental Center and other groups allege Trump has no authority to undo Biden\u2019s permanent protections against drilling in parts of the Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, which Trump recently renamed to the Gulf of America. In Cyprus, the &#8217;frying pan movement&#8217; is turning household waste into a sustainability lesson.<\/p>\n<p>The groups say drilling in those areas would have \u201csignificant, wide-ranging adverse impacts\u201d on endangered species, sensitive ecosystems and local tribes.Also on Wednesday, a group led by the League of Conservation Voters made a new filing in a dormant case from the first Trump administration concerning former President Barack Obama\u2019s withdrawal of parts of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans from future oil leasing, which Trump sought to undo.<\/p>\n<p>Litigation over Trump\u2019s removal of those protections was dismissed after Biden reinstated the protections, but Trump has moved in his second term to undo them again.\u201cThe areas President Obama withdrew from leasing in the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans are thus again threatened by offshore oil and gas activities,\u201d the groups said in the lawsuit, asking a judge to enforce a prior court order finding Trump\u2019s actions in his first term were illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/environmental-groups-sue-block-trumps-offshore-drilling-expansions-2025-02-19\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/environmental-groups-sue-to-block-trumps-offshore-drilling-expansions\/\">Environmental groups sue to block Trump&#8217;s offshore drilling expansions<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[18034,18035,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-137637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-groups","tag-trumps-offshore-drilling","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}