The Bureau of Land Management just finalized plans to open more than 1 million acres of California's public and private lands to oil and gas leasing.

They have ignored state law, bypassed the public, and are targeting precious public lands INSIDE state and regional parks, including Mount Diablo State Park, Henry W. Coe State Park, Thurgood Marshall Regional Park in Concord (not even opened to the public yet), and Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve.

Nearly half a million comments statewide were submitted opposing this plan and the federal administration's "drill baby drill" agenda across California's lands and waters since January. Even though hundreds of flaws and pieces of ignored research were highlighted, the administration moved forward anyway.

This is a direct attack on the protections California's frontline communities—Kern County families, Central Valley farmworkers, Indigenous communities—spent years fighting to win. The 3,200-foot health and safety setbacks that keep oil wells away from homes, schools, and hospitals. California's fracking ban. The environmental commitments on which the Governor has staked his national reputation on. All of it is on the line. And all of it means nothing if California doesn't defend it right now.

Governor Newsom has the authority to act. State law has been ignored. California has the authority to conduct a 60-day Governor’s Consistency Review to ensure federal actions are consistent with state laws, policies, and protections. That review exists precisely to ensure federal actions do not conflict with state law and policy — and this decision is in direct, flagrant conflict with both.

The federal government moved forward and filed a Notice of Determination, approving this massive expansion of oil and gas leasing, without giving time to exercise this right.

We are urging Governor Newsom to immediately direct the state to prepare a lawsuit to defend California’s landmark environmental safeguards—including

• The state’s 3,200-foot health and safety buffers between oil drilling and homes, schools, and hospitals;
• California’s fracking ban; and
• The state’s broader climate and public health commitments

Add your name. Ask Governor Newsom to mobilize the state to sue, enforce California's environmental and public health laws, and publicly oppose the federal government's attempt to hand our public lands to Big Oil.