Over 10 million acres of ecologically sensitive land is now off limits to oil and gas drilling

Biden administration unveils new regulations that will help preserve 13 million acres in Alaska

With your support, this year, we kept up the fight to preserve Arctic lands and waters that are critical to the survival of wildlife, culturally important to Indigenous peoples, and serve as vital bulwarks against climate change.

Biden administration cancels illegal leases and opens new processes that could preserve cherished Arctic lands in Alaska. More is needed to tackle the biggest climate threat: further oil drilling on existing oil and gas leases in the Western Arctic 

Earthjustice has advocated for decades in courts and Congress to protect these lands.

Administration’s environmental review failed to account for project’s full climate impact

The oil drilling project Peregrine is on pause, but another carbon bomb — the Willow Project — could get the go-ahead.

Big Hole River needs curbs to irrigation withdrawals for grayling to survive

Hasty environmental review ignores human rights and public support for protections

Conservation groups and local Alaska Native leaders respond

In its waning days of power, the Trump administration is attempting to open the Arctic for oil and gas drilling in sacred and irreplaceable Alaskan wilderness.

Our court victory in the Arctic underscores that the law is a powerful tool in stopping climate-wrecking projects.

What this court ruling means for the country and the climate.

By land and by sea, America’s Arctic is under attack. Earthjustice is fighting on multiple fronts to protect this irreplaceable region and keep the Arctic’s fossil fuels in the ground.

Climate change, depleted river flows threaten struggling fish

A unique wildlife habitat on public lands is at risk being sacrificed to the oil and gas industry

Environmental groups head to court to fight energy development plan that will damage pristine wilderness and critical habitat and deepen the climate crisis

Proposed management plan would gut protections for the largest Arctic lake in the United States and other Special Areas in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska