It was on Black Friday that the Trump Administration published a dire climate report, which warned that the planet's warming will imperil our health, affect every region of the country, and take a massive toll on the national economy if we don't wean ourselves off fossil fuels, and soon.

So in keeping with his mission to risk anything in order to give oil and gas companies another sloppy kiss, the president used the latest Friday news dump to announce that we're back in the offshore drilling game in New Jersey and throughout the Atlantic coast, with gusto.

This might ordinarily cause a national outbreak of cognitive dissonance, but it's hard to be surprised by Trump's reckless stewardship of his Twitter feed, much less the environment.

The only comfort is that he will face formidable opposition from a Democratic majority in the House, notably from an Energy and Commerce Committee chaired by Rep. Frank Pallone (D-6th Dist.), who will lead a rally on the Asbury Park boardwalk Tuesday morning at 10:30.

The rally is the latest in a series of reminders that drilling off our shore is a non-negotiable. Our 130-mile coastline is an economic powerhouse: It generates $44 billion a year in tourism revenue, our commercial fishing industry generates another $8 billion, and the shore supports roughly 10 percent of our state's workforce, directly or indirectly. It is also home to $700 billion in coastal properties.

An oil spill would endanger all of that. Even NASA and the Pentagon agree that it's dangerous and short-sighted.

Regardless, the Trump administration got the drilling process going Friday by authorizing five oil companies to conduct seismic airgun testing that could start in April.

These deafening seismic surveys will take place between Delaware and Florida, but our state will not be immune to their impacts.

These tests involve the use of airgun blasts to search the ocean floor for fossil fuel deposits. The noise can reach 260 decibels and travel 2,500 miles. Douglas Nowacek, a Duke University expert on the impact of noise on ocean life, told Congress that it is akin to being at "the epicenter of a grenade blast, and would easily cause the rupture of the human eardrum."

So even before they get to drill, there could be devastating effects on marine life. The National Resources Defense Council believes that the seismic activity might drive the North American right whale - whose population has fallen to 400 - to extinction. The feds reply that if any harm is deemed "unintentional," the operators won't be penalized. They haven't explained how they'll determine whether species are being "unintentionally" harmed as they try to migrate or breed across a 2,500-mile perimeter, however.

It's all a reminder that federal waters along the Atlantic have been closed to oil drilling for nearly four decades for good reason.

It should also make New Jerseyans wonder why this state is so often a target for Trump's smash-mouth governance. He has shown a sadistic joy in punishing blue states; in our case, he's given us a tax plan that reduced our SALT deduction, he has refused to help fund the Gateway Project, and he tried to slash funding for states that expanded Medicaid in his Obamacare repeal bill.

That isn't exactly showing gratitude to a state that is crucial to the national economy, one that gives far more than it gets. New Jersey is the fourth least-dependent state for federal funding, according to WalletHub, the consumer website. Trump probably hasn't noticed. Nor has he noticed that 10 of the top 11 moochers are red states.

Perhaps the president believes Oklahoma and Kansas can carry the national economy. But he needs to be reminded, again, that coastal states rely on clean shorelines for their economic viability. That cannot be compromised, and it must not be sold out for oil interests without a brawl.

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