(Anchorage, AK) – Wednesday, the State of Alaska joined a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana challenging the Biden Administration’s unlawful moratorium placed on the federal oil and gas leasing program. At issue is an Executive Order issued by President Biden that calls for the cessation of all new […]
One campaigner called her confirmation “a tremendous win for Indigenous communities, the waters, parks, and lands across our country, and the climate.” A diverse coalition of progressive and Indigenous figures and organizations on Monday celebrated the Senate’s confirmation of Deb Haaland to head the Department of the Interior—making the New Mexico Democrat and Green New […]
“Our elected officials are sold out to Big Oil,” said Public Citizen Dozens of Republican lawmakers who oppose President Joe Biden’s executive order temporarily halting new oil and gas leasing on federal lands have taken tens of millions of dollars in career campaign contributions from fossil fuel, energy, and natural resources industry interests, a report published […]
HOMER – Cook Inletkeeper Thursday applauded the decision by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to cancel public hearings around the proposed million-acre Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet. BOEM’s move comes in the wake of President Biden’s January 27 Executive Order placing a pause on all oil and […]