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Ninth Circuit Deals Setback to Willow Oil Project in Alaska

A federal court ruled that the Department of the Interior unlawfully approved ConocoPhillips’s massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska’s Western Arctic. Read More

Alaska LNG is a Corrupt, Costly, Catastrophic Carbon-Bomb

The Trump Administration’s so-called summit for Alaska LNG ended without binding commitments from potential investors in Asia. Read More

Federal Court Finds Massive Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oil Sale Illegal, Ruling in Favor of Gulf and Environmental Groups

Interior violated NEPA and failed to adequately consider the harms that drilling would have on climate change and on the critically endangered Gulf of Mexico Rice’s whale. Read More

As Republicans Prepare Tax Giveaway Package, Oil and Gas Companies Try to Avoid Corporate Minimum Tax

It is simply outrageous that the Republican party is using its trifecta to create yet another fossil fuel subsidy. Read More

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Critically Endangered Rice’s Whale From Trump Administration

Several conservation groups sent notice today of their intent to sue the Trump administration for stripping away measures aimed at protecting the critically endangered Rice’s whale from deadly ship and boat collisions. Read More

Decision to Close EPA’s Environmental Justice Offices a Danger to Americans’ Health and Safety

This amounts to a racist attack on low-income and communities of color who suffer most from the consequences of pollution. Read More

Lawsuit Challenges Federal Approvals for New Oil, Gas Drilling on California Public Lands

Today’s filing is part of a long series of lawsuits against the BLM for greenlighting more oil and gas activity in California's Kern County. Read More

North Dakota Federal Judge Upends Key Biden-era NEPA Regulations

Today's federal court decision is a setback for our country's magna carta of environmental laws, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and upends important reforms made to environmental ("phase II") regulations under the Biden Administration. Read More

Environmentalists Denounce Proposed Geoengineering Project in Gulf of Maine

Friends of the Earth US and the Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME) Alliance publicly oppose the re-proposed LOC-NESS experiment. Read More

Biden Administration’s Move to Expand Data Centers for AI Will Exacerbate the Climate Crisis and Hurt Consumers

It was unwise for President Biden to fast-track data centers on federal lands as one of his final acts as president. Read More