Oppose Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed Oil and

The groups on this fight

4 groups work California

By footprint, from the same match the STAND matchmaker runs; none is linked to this decision in our record yet. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

• California Wilderness Coalition

  Works California: spent years building the designation campaign with Tribal nations and now defends the monument as an intervenor in federal court.

• Friends of the Desert Mountains

  Works California: coachella Valley land conservancy that helped establish Sand to Snow and worked with The Wildlands Conservancy on acquisitions inside the monument footprint..

• Friends of the Inyo

  Works California: runs the Eastern Sierra opposition to the gold exploration projects around the Bodie Wilderness Study Area and hosts the Bodie Hills Conservation Partnership's donation and newsletter operations..

• Los Padres ForestWatch

  Works California: has led opposition to oil drilling in the Los Padres region for two decades and is fighting the plan to reopen 400,000 acres to leasing.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

BOEM's announcing it'll prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for up to six proposed oil and gas lease sales across Northern, Central, and Southern California's Outer Continental Shelf waters. The agency's kicking off a public scoping process now to identify key issues and alternatives, running this PEIS prep simultaneously with the broader 11th National OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program because the timeline is too tight to do them sequentially. This affects coastal communities, marine ecosystems, and conservation interests along California's Pacific coast.

Consistent with the U.S. Department of the Interior (Department or DOI) regulations and handbook implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announces its intent to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) (Unique Identification Number DOI-BOEM-PC-2026- 0001-EIS) for proposed oil and gas lease sales in the Northern, Central, and Southern California Program Areas (California Oil and Gas PEIS). This notice of intent (NOI) serves to announce the scoping process BOEM will use to identify significant issues and potential alternatives for c…

Federal Register 2026-03973 ↗

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