Support EarthJustice (to stop Trump Drilling for Oil)
In October 2025, EarthJustice reported that President Trump is opening the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (1.56 million acres in Alaska near the Canadian border), to oil and gas leasing, making profits for fossil fuel companies.
The Refuge is home to black and brown bears, caribou, Dall sheep, moose, fox, muskoxen, whales, seals and many species of birds. The coastal plain is also an important denning area for wintering polar bears.
These lands are home to irreplaceable wildlife, in an area that is warming faster than the rest of the planet, and be disastrous for communities and ‘the American people’, so often quoted by his press secretary.
Expanding oil drilling in the Arctic threatens wildlife and cultural traditions that exist nowhere else in the world. It worsens the climate crisis and undermines energy security. The Gwich’in people, most Americans and even major banks and insurance companies know the Arctic Refuge is no place to drill. Erik Grafe (EarthJustice attorney)
Florida Also At Risk from Oil Spills
In sunny Florida, pelicans (big birds with pouches in their bills, to catch several fish at once) are often at risk from oil spills, due to leisure and commercial boats. Local volunteers also find emaciated birds, due to over-fishing by humans (pelicans feed their chicks up to 30 times a day).
Other risks are injuries from fishing line/hooks and habitat loss (rising sea temperatures means birds cannot dive deep enough to find food).
Recent oil spills in the USA have wiped out some pelican populations. But now US policy is to open up more areas, to ‘drill, drill, drill’ for more oil.
One spill a few years back killed over 100,000 birds and turtles, billions of oysters and trillions of newly hatched fish. Now 15 years later, President Trump seeks to reopen this area of the Gulf Coast to drill for oil and gas.
The environmental organisation EarthJustice is now suing the Trump administration, for its attempts to turn public waters off nearly every US coastlines, into oil fields.
