Washington, DC-In response to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s announcement of Trump’s Executive Order asking for review by the Interior and Commerce Departments of offshore drilling and gas regulations and protected areas, which could possibly open up lease sales in the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, Greenpeace USA Senior Climate and Energy Campaigner Diana Best said,
“Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is dead wrong. Renewable energy already has us on the right track to energy independence, and opening new areas to offshore oil and gas drilling will lock us into decades of harmful pollution, devastating spills like the Deepwater Horizon tragedy, and a fossil fuel economy with no future. Scientific consensus is that the vast majority of known fossil fuel reserves – including the oil and gas off US coasts– must remain undeveloped if we are to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
This executive order from the Trump administration is just the latest in a series of attempted rollbacks that most people in this country do not want, and only come at the behest of Trump’s inner circle of desperate fossil fuel executives. Holing up at Mar-a-lago may protect Trump from an oil spill, but it will not protect him and his cabinet of one percenters from the millions of people in this country – from California to North Carolina – who will resist his disastrous policies.”
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