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Environmental & Energy

Dec. 23, 2022

Environmental group made strides in 2022 to end offshore drilling

The Center for Biological Diversity remains committed to the cause of completely ceasing offshore drilling, and has filed multiple lawsuits naming the U.S. secretary of the interior as a defendant.

Environmental group made strides in 2022 to end offshore drilling
Kristen A. Monsell is the litigation director for the Center for Biological Diversity's oceans program. Courtesy of Drew Bird Phot

With last year’s catastrophic oil spill in Huntington Beach representing the latest in a series of similar incidents off the California coast, the Center for Biological Diversity has taken a prominent role in propelling litigation aimed not just at cleaning up messes, but preventing more to come.

“It’s unfortunate that we have to be filing these lawsuits, because they’re often brought because the federal government isn’t doing its job and i...

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