Stop Risky Offshore Drilling Without Environmental Review

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The BP drilling plan that led to the April 20 deadly explosion— killing 11 people and causing the largest oil spill in U.S. history— was approved without environmental review. Despite the Gulf catastrophe, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued 19 new drilling approvals after the explosion— all exempt from environmental review under the "categorical exclusion" exemption policy.

Now, billions of dollars in damage to the Gulf and coastal states later, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the agency tasked with ensuring that federal agencies meet their obligations under NEPA, is reviewing this loophole that allows oil drilling to skip these legally required environmental reviews. We need to act now to urge them to close this loophole. **Please make your voice heard and demand environmental review of offshore drilling today.**