Take Action to Protect Whales and Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico

Call on the Department of Commerce to reverse a dangerous Trump
administration regulation allowing fossil fuel companies to search for oil
and gas in the Gulf of Mexico using seismic testing — a process producing
deafening underwater blasts that impair marine mammals' ability to find
food, communicate, navigate, and breed.

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Dear NRDC Activist,

In its final days in office, the Trump administration pushed through a
regulation that could have grave consequences for marine mammals and our
climate.

Fossil fuel companies are now approved to search for oil and gas in the
Gulf of Mexico through a process known as seismic testing, where they
criss-cross the ocean with high-volume airguns blasting underwater every
10 seconds for days, weeks, and even months on end.

The noise the airguns generate is deafening to whales and dolphins,
impairing their ability to find food, communicate with each other,
navigate, and breed. These seismic blasts are as loud as bombs repeatedly
going off in their home — a home they can't escape.

The Trump administration's dangerous seismic testing regulation threatens
countless marine mammals, including the critically endangered Gulf of
Mexico whale, and keeps us shackled to dirty fossil fuels — and it must be
reversed.

[ [link removed] ]Join me in calling on Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to stop seismic
testing for new leases in the Gulf of Mexico.

Among the animals at greatest risk is the Gulf of Mexico whale — one of
the most endangered marine mammals on the planet, with only about 50
remaining and all of them in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of the
United States. According to the Trump administration, the new regulation
would allow the oil industry to disrupt, and in some cases injure, Gulf
whales and dolphins more than eight million times over the next five
years.

But it's not just marine mammals who are harmed by seismic testing. It
also injures and kills fish and invertebrates, can dramatically reduce
catch rates of some commercial fish, and tightens the fossil fuel
industry's stranglehold on our environment during a worsening climate
crisis.

An alarming new report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) this month found that the impacts of climate change are
happening faster and more severely than once thought. More drilling in our
oceans will only continue our addiction to oil and exacerbate an already
dire situation.

Last month, NRDC and partner groups sued the National Marine Fisheries
Service challenging the Trump-era regulation approving seismic testing in
the Gulf.

We'll see this fight through to the end, but we need your help to create a
wave of public pressure to push Secretary Raimondo and the Commerce
Department to reverse the Trump administration's damage now.

[ [link removed] ]Please speak up and tell the Biden administration to block seismic
testing for new leases in the Gulf of Mexico.

Thank for your support!

Sincerely,
[3]Michael
Michael Jasny
Director of Marine Mammal Protection, NRDC

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The mission of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is to
safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural
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