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

https://alaskabeacon.com/briefs/trump-signs-law-that-revokes-some-limits-on-drilling-in-alaskas-national-petroleum-reserve/

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.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/trump-administration-interior-doug-burgum-mascot-coalie-ridicule/

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.

https://northdakotamonitor.com/2026/02/27/judge-finalizes-order-for-greenpeace-to-pay-345-million-in-north-dakota-oil-pipeline-case/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/north-dakota-greenpeace-access-pipeline-energy-transfer

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://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/17/headlines/trump_admin_approves_bps_5_billion_drilling_project_off_louisiana_coast

https://earthjustice.org/feature/kaskida-bp-oil-drilling

https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-administration-approves-ultra-deepwater-oil-drilling-plan

https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-markey-blasts-trump-administration-plan-to-allow-deepwater-drilling-in-the-gulf-of-mexico

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill

2026 April

2026-04-02 Argentina’s lawmakers, led by Javier Milei, pushed reforms to remove protections on freshwater reserves and glaciers to allow for drilling.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y72e6x554o

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2026/04/02/argentina-reforms-glacier-protection-law/

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/10/headlines/protesters_rally_to_protect_water_resources_as_argentina_weakens_law_protecting_glaciers

https://batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/explainer-mileis-attempt-to-change-argentinas-glacier-protection-law.phtml

2026-04-13 Chevron set to expand oil extraction operations in Venezuela.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/14/headlines/chevron_set_to_expand_oil_extraction_operations_in_venezuela

https://www.chevron.com/newsroom/2026/q2/chevron-consolidates-venezuela-heavy-oil-position-in-asset-swap

PAYWALL https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-13/venezuela-set-to-award-oil-fields-to-chevron-to-help-grow-output

COOKIES https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260414-venezuela-chevron-strike-deals-to-expand-oil-operations-in-key-region

2026-04-16 The senate voted to lift a federal ban on mining upstream from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

https://www.minnpost.com/national/washington/2025/06/mining-provisions-environmentalists-say-threaten-boundary-waters-scrubbed-from-big-beautiful-bill/

https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/news/senate-just-greenlit-mine-boundary-waters-minnesota/