Washington — Today, as part of a flurry of Executive Actions that include rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement and stopping the Keystone XL Pipeline, President-elect Joe Biden will take immediate action to protect the sacred lands of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by placing a temporary moratorium on oil and gas leasing activities on its […]
Lame duck administration takes next step in a rushed process to open one of the nation’s most iconic and sacred landscapes to oil drilling Washington — The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority emerged as the apparent high bidder in the Trump administration’s illegal oil and gas lease sale as part of its Coastal […]
Willow Project Would Mark Major Expansion for Oil, Gas Extraction in Western Arctic ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging a massive oil and gas project known as the Willow Master Development Plan in Alaska’s Western Arctic. Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law firm, sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service […]
“No amount of spin changes the fact that the oil and gas extraction is wreaking havoc on our communities and our climate.” A report published Tuesday by the nonprofit Earthworks details the difference between what major fossil fuel companies say and do in terms of voluntary and government-mandated efforts to reduce the potent greenhouse gas methane, concluding that “the […]