Drill Baby Drill
2025 October
2025-10-24 The Trump administration finalized plans to remove protections for the protected coastal plain of Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuge to allow for oil and gas drilling.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/24/nx-s1-5584883/trump-alaska-wildlife-refuge-oil-gas-drilling
2026 February
2026-02-03 The Trump Administration’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum introduced a PR campaign to place an innocent façade on Trump’s “drill-baby-drill” campaign by using the cartoon mascot “Coalie”.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-alpha-president-economy-manufacturing-coal-disaster
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/trump-administration-coalie-mascot-fossil-fuels
https://x.com/SecretaryBurgum/status/2014382110828536183
2026-02-27 A North Dakota judge ordered Greenpeace to pay $345M to the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline over alleged damages to the developer during anti-pipeline protests in 2016 and 2017.
2026 March
2026-03-14 The Trump administration approved BP’s $5B deep-sea drilling project off the coast of Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico. This is the same company involved and responsible for the 2010 Deep Water Horizon disaster. This will threaten deep sea ecosystems and marine life.
https://earthjustice.org/feature/kaskida-bp-oil-drilling
https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-administration-approves-ultra-deepwater-oil-drilling-plan