Public Lands Need Protection, Not More Oil & Gas Pollution!

Trump is unleashing yet another attack on our precious public lands. Now his Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is targeting California and threatening to open up over 1 million acres of public lands to polluting oil and gas corporations.

Public lands are a refuge for human wonder and beautiful wildlife, not places for Trump’s oil and gas cronies to frack, drill, exploit, and pollute.

Deadline March 13: Submit a comment telling the Trump administration we will not accept any new fracking or drilling on lands that belong to all of us and that keep wildlife wild.

Drilling is being proposed near important wildlife preserves and popular recreational sites. But Trump’s BLM is selling off our public lands to enrich his corporate friends in the oil and gas industry. Their profits come at the expense of our climate, of Tribal rights and sovereignty, of our clean air and safe water, of wildlife, and of some of our country’s most outstandingly beautiful wild places.

Write to the BLM today and urge them to rethink this reckless giveaway to Big Oil.

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DOI-BLM-CA-C090-2025-0017

Oil & Gas Leasing & Dev

Supplemental EIS

Bureau of Land Management

DOI-BLM-CA-C060-2025-0053

Oil & Gas Leasing & Dev

Supplemental EIS

Bureau of Land Management

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I urge you to rescind and revise your plans to open up over 1 million acres of public lands and mineral rights to oil and gas drilling and fracking in California. The supplemental environmental impact statements for both the Central Coast (DOI-BLM-CA-C090-2025-0017-EIS) and Bakersfield (DOI-BLM-CA-C060-2025-0053-EIS) regions are fundamentally flawed and dismiss or simply defer disclosure and rigorous analysis of environmental impacts to a later date.

The documents fail to take seriously the fact that more fracking and drilling will increase greenhouse gas emissions and intensify the climate crisis. From extreme heat to wildfires, droughts, and floods, Californians are already bearing the costs of climate change. Extracting more oil and gas from our public lands will turbocharge these costs.

They also fail to adequately evaluate the harm more toxic oil pollution will do to our health by contaminating the air we breathe and the water we drink. The Central Valley, where much of the drilling is being proposed, is already burdened with the worst air quality in the country. Low-income communities and communities of color are disproportionately harmed. The documents have not adequately assessed the compounding health harms communities like those in the Central Valley will be forced to endure if more drilling moves forward.

Drilling is being proposed near the Carrizo Plain National Monument and around popular recreational sites like Pinnacles National Park, Mount Diablo State Park, Henry W. Coe State Park, and Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. These places are home to San Joaquin kit foxes, giant kangaroo rats, monarch butterflies, burrowing owls, California condors, and the California jewelflower. The threats more drilling poses to these species have been woefully underestimated in the documents.

The documents flout existing California laws. California has banned fracking and enforces a 3,200-foot buffer zone between oil drilling and communities. These critical laws protect Californians and our climate. The documents suggest BLM intends to ignore these laws and put communities at risk by allowing drilling and fracking near homes, schools, and hospitals.

They are proposing the same decisions and flawed environmental analyses the Bureau of Land Management used five years ago that were challenged in court. These legal challenges resulted in a settlement ordering BLM to redo their analysis. These plans suggest the BLM has not taken its obligation to redo its assessment seriously. Instead, the agency appears to be ignoring the advances in climate science, new special-status species that have been considered or listed for protections, and the most recent studies linking oil and gas extraction to adverse health outcomes that have been published since the settlement.

For all these reasons, I urge you to rescind these Supplemental Environmental Impact Statements, update these analyses with disclosure of impacts instead of deferring to the permitting stage, and amend the Resource Management Plans to value health and environmental protections over extraction.

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