Marin County backs coalition opposing new offshore drilling along California coast

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News May 19, 2026May 19, 2026

A Shell Oil offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico off of the Louisiana coast on July 17, 2006. The prospect of such platforms dotting the Northern California coastline has raised concerns among Marin County leaders. (Tami Heilemann/Department of the Interior via Bay City News)

The Marin County Board of Supervisors approved a $29,000 contribution Tuesday to support a coalition opposing new offshore oil and gas drilling in federal waters as the Trump administration advances its proposed five-year offshore leasing program.

The one-time payment will go to Santa Cruz County, which leads the multi-county Save My Coast Coalition. Marin County joined the coalition in November.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.

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