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Environmental Groups Appeal Court Order to Remove Protections for Endangered Whale from Gulf Lease Sale
Environmental groups appealed a court order today that granted a preliminary injunction by oil companies to remove protections for the critically endangered Rice’s whale included in upcoming Gulf le…
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Friends of the Earth Responds to Interior’s Announcements for Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
WASHINGTON – Today, the Biden Administration announced a set of new regulations regarding land use for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (Western Arctic) and the cancellation of remaining oil an…
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Lawsuit Challenges Massive Offshore Lease Sale for Failing to Properly Consider Gulf Communities and Climate
Gulf community and environmental groups sued the Department of the Interior today to challenge a September offshore oil and gas lease sale that would offer up more than 67 million acres in the Gulf o…
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Lawsuit spurs agreement to better protect endangered Rice’s whale from offshore drilling
Under a settlement agreement approved today in the U.S. District Court in Maryland, federal agencies will seek better ways to protect the Rice’s whale – a critically endangered species in the Gulf…
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Friends of the Earth Applauds National Monument Designation for Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon
WASHINGTON – Today, the Biden Administration designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni, or Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon, as a national monument. The monument is home to over 3,000 cultural…
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Friends of the Earth Denounces Congressional Attacks on the Endangered Species Act
WASHINGTON – Today, the House passed resolutions under the Congressional Review Act that permanently remove protections for the lesser prairie chicken and long-eared bat, currently safeguarded by th…
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Friends of the Earth Celebrates CLEAN Energy and NOW Acts
WASHINGTON – Today, Representatives Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA-37), and Deborah Ross (D-NC-2) introduced the CLEAN Energy Act and NOW Acts. These bills repeal har…
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Friends of the Earth Slams Climate Omission in New Oil and Gas Leasing Rule
The Biden Administration’s Bureau of Land Management announced a new rulemaking today to overhaul public lands leasing that neglects to address the significant climate impacts of oil and gas drillin…
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Gulf and Environmental Groups Call on Interior Department to End Routine Fast-Tracking of Offshore Oil Drilling Projects
Six Gulf and national environmental groups submitted a petition today to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) calling on the agency to end a routine practice of fast-tracking approval for offs…
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Biden Administration Spearheads Massive Public Lands Giveaway
The Biden Administration continued its string of oil and gas lease sales on federal lands with a massive sale of more than 100,000 acres in Wyoming this week, an area more than twice the size of Wash…