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Lawsuit Launched Over U.S. Delay on Petition to Phase Out Oil Drilling on Public Lands
Conservation groups today filed a notice of their intent to sue the U.S. Interior Department for failing to respond to a petition to phase out oil and gas extraction on public lands.
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Conservation groups sue to stop the Willow Oil Project in Alaska’s Western Arctic
Earthjustice filed a lawsuit today on behalf of conservation groups, together with NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council), to stop the massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska’s Western A…
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Friends of the Earth Slams Biden Approval of Climate Disaster Willow Project
Today, the Biden Administration’s Bureau of Land Management announced its approval of the ConocoPhillips Willow Project in the Western Arctic, the largest oil extraction project ever proposed on fed…
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Lawsuit Challenges Biden Decision to Open 73.3 Million Acres of Gulf of Mexico for Oil Leasing
Today, Gulf-area and national environmental groups sued the Department of the Interior over lease sale 259, which would open 73.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas leasing.
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Conservation Groups to Defend Biden Administration Postponement of Oil, Gas Lease Sales
Seventeen groups represented by Earthjustice and the Western Environmental Law Center moved to intervene today to defend the Biden administration’s postponement of several oil and gas lease sales.
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Friends of the Earth Responds to Final EIS for Climate Disaster Willow Project
Greenlighting the Willow project would banish President Biden’s climate legacy to one of irreparable and downright shameful environmental destruction.
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U.S. Forest Service restores critical protections to Tongass National Forest
In a win for Southeast Alaska communities, wildlife, and the climate, the U.S. Forest Service reinstated Roadless Rule protections across the Tongass rainforest in Southeast Alaska.
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Interior Letter on Post-IRA Leasing
President Biden cannot be a climate leader until we begin managing our public lands and waters in a manner consistent with climate science.
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More Than 300 Groups Urge Biden Administration to Manage Public Lands and Waters in Line with his Climate Promises and International Commitments
Today, over 300 community groups sent a letter to the Department of Interior outlining 9 concrete steps it can take to align its public lands and waters management with climate science and Biden’s cli…
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Environmental and Climate Groups, Advocates, and Activists Hold Rally in Front of White House, Urging Biden to Protect Arctic Health, Climate Justice by Rejecting ConocoPhillips’ Willow Oil and Gas Project
Today, groups delivered over 100,000 comments to the White House in opposition to ConocoPhillips’ dirty and dangerous Willow project and rallied at Lafayette Square to demand the Biden Administratio…