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Nearly 200 Groups Urge No New Leases in Biden’s Five Year Plan
WASHINGTON – Community organizations across the country sent a letter to the Biden administration today demanding no new leases in the Interior Department’s Five Year Plan for offshore drilling as…
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Court rejects Wyoming, industry challenge to Biden administration postponement of oil, gas lease sales
WASHINGTON, DC — A federal judge in Wyoming affirmed the Biden administration’s decisions to postpone oil and gas lease sales in early 2021, holding that the federal government has broad authority…
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The Climate & Agriculture provisions of the IRA
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is many things at once. The good and the bad all need to be considered together.
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Legal Agreements Block Drilling, Fracking Across 1 Million Acres in Central California
Groups and the Bureau of Land Management reached an agreement to suspend new oil and gas leasing across more than 1 million acres of public lands in California.
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Leading climate, conservation and Indigenous groups respond to draft supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project
No single oil and gas project poses a greater threat to the Biden Administration’s climate and public lands protection goals than the Willow Project.
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Biden’s five-year drilling plan would exacerbate climate disaster
The DOI issued a draft five-year offshore oil and gas drilling plan, which is opposed by coastal communities and national climate groups.
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Biden Administration Holds First Public Lands Lease Sales
This action is in direct contradiction to Biden’s campaign promise to stop new oil and gas leasing on public lands.
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Groups sue Biden administration over Wyoming oil and gas lease sale
The Wilderness Society and FOE filed a suit over the Biden administration’s decision to offer 123 parcels of federal land for drilling.
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Social Cost of Carbon From Federal Oil and Gas Development
Fossil fuel development costs society trillions of dollars in air and water pollution, climate change, public health, and environmental degradation.
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Report: Big Oil Makes Billions While Society Shoulders Staggering Costs of Public Lands and Waters Drilling
Friends of the Earth released an analysis on the true social cost of carbon if the Biden administration continues allowing Big Oil to drill.