Oceana Declares Victory in Protecting the Atlantic from Offshore Drilling - Oceana USA

Victory | March 15, 2016

Oceana Declares Victory in Protecting the Atlantic from Offshore Drilling

The Obama administration made a historic move to protect the East Coast from offshore drilling. In the newly proposed five-year program for oil and gas development on the Outer Continental Shelf, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management removed the Atlantic Ocean for leasing from 2017 to 2022. While Oceana applauded the Obama administration for listening to widespread opposition along the East Coast, it continues to urge the government to stop seismic airgun use in the Atlantic and not to hold new lease sales in the remote and unforgiving Arctic Ocean.