Following the oil strike in Katalia, oil companies raced to stake out oil claims in Alaska. In response, on November 5th 1910, President Taft withdrew all oil lands in Alaska from exploration and drilling. The oil lands that President Taft closed down would not be released until definite surveys could be made and the petroleum […]
“The oil industry’s allies in Congress are ignoring public opinion and the undeniable realities of the climate crisis by moving to drill on the sacred Coastal Plain and endanger the freedom of local communities.” Indigenous leaders joined with climate and wildlife defenders on Friday to blast President Donald Trump’s administration and Republicans in Congress over the newly announced fossil […]
The authority President Joe Biden used could make it difficult for the incoming Trump administration to reverse the sweeping drilling ban. Outgoing President Joe Biden on Monday moved to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling across more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal territory, protecting swaths of the East Coast, the eastern Gulf […]
“Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is all risk with no reward,” said one advocate. Wildlife protection groups and Indigenous leaders in Alaska said Monday that they would push to discourage bidding in an oil and gas lease sale just announced by the U.S. Interior Department for part of the Arctc National […]