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Federal agencies failed to prevent harm to threatened polar bears when they opened the entire Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing

Interior’s “Call for Nominations” invites companies to choose public lands areas it wants to bid on in a future lease sale

Updated complaint restarts paused litigation to protect the 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil and gas leasing

The ruling allows ConocoPhillips to proceed with its plans for winter exploration program

Conservation groups represented by Earthjustice issued a letter to the Bureau of Land Management and to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum providing the required 60-day notice of the groups’ intent to sue federal agencies for violating the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The letter alerts agencies that the groups plan to sue to protect threatened polar bears from oil and gas leasing and extraction in the Western Arctic.

The administration wants to maximize oil and gas drilling in Arctic regions of the U.S. We’re in court to stop them.

How lawmakers are clearing the way for mining and fossil fuel development across the western U.S. and Alaska.

Aggressive new drilling proposed in northern Alaska poses grave risks to the planet — and to a vast and rare Arctic ecosystem.

Oil and gas industrialization would destroy one of the last truly intact wilderness areas on Earth

In a series of recent moves, the administration is opening most of the vast and precious Arctic ecosystem to drilling.

Interior approved ConocoPhillips’ plan to explore for more oil near its Willow project without addressing the harm it will cause to wildlife and sensitive ecosystems

Trump agencies proposed weakening Endangered Species Act rules

Global warming is harming bears; Earthjustice calls for a time out on Arctic Ocean oil and gas development

Bill would reduce critical protections for imperiled plants and animals

At the expense of communities and our climate, this massive public lands attack auctions off treasured lands in the nation’s largest wildlife refuge to benefit fossil fuel companies

Statement from Earthjustice attorney Clayton Jernigan regarding proposed Endangered Species Act protections for polar bears.

An exploratory project in the Western Arctic would harm wildlife, sensitive ecosystems, and Alaska Native communities.

When it comes right down to it, there’s only one way to save the sea ice polar bears depend on: cut carbon emissions.