The Surfrider Foundation is among the members of a coalition of conservation organizations represented by Earthjustice, which have banded together to take legal action against the Trump administration to prevent the approval of new offshore drilling plays in U.S. waters.

While former President Joe Biden took decisive action to prevent new offshore drilling moves at more than 625 million acres of U.S. waters, including the East Coast, the West Coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico/America, and portions of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska, by preventing future oil and gas leasing in these regions, these protections were short-lived .