""This plan would open up a massive amount of waters to new oil and gas drilling,""
""This would just be devastating for species from walrus and polar bears in the Arctic to Rice's whales in the Gulf of Mexico,""
A draft federal proposal would authorize up to 34 offshore oil and gas lease sales over five years, potentially opening as much as 1.27 billion acres of federal waters to drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, off California, and along Alaska. Those leases would add to 36 additional sales mandated by Congress under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. An analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity projects the expansion could result in more than 4,000 oil spills and release over 12 million gallons of crude into ecologically important marine areas, threatening marine species and habitats.
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