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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

Conservation groups and an Iñupiat-led grassroots organization seek to overturn the Trump administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ winter seismic and exploration drilling program in the Western Arctic.

The Department of the Interior announced it will finalize the rescission of common-sense rules aimed at better protecting ecologically sensitive public lands including Teshekpuk Lake

Bureau of Land Management issues an environmental study to authorize ConocoPhillips’ winter drilling and seismic projects in Teshekpuk Lake and Colville River Special Areas

The Department of the Interior is taking steps to offer up millions of acres of public land for drilling in the Arctic despite the ongoing government shutdown

Earthjustice is defending against multi-pronged attacks, all aimed at maximum drilling.

The public has just two weeks to comment on an illegal drilling plan that would destroy ecologically sensitive areas and deepen the climate crisis

Repeal of Regulations designed to minimize the impacts of fossil-fuel drilling on public lands in Alaska would harm wildlife, subsistence, and the climate

Expanding Western Arctic protections will help safeguard irreplaceable Arctic ecosystems from harmful fossil fuel development

La administración Biden cancela ofertas ilegales y abre nuevos procesos que podrían preservar las preciadas tierras árticas en Alaska, pero se necesita más para abordar la mayor amenaza climática: más perforaciones en los arrendamientos de petróleo y gas existentes en el Ártico occidental.

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 

Intention to scrap Trump-era Integrated Activity Plan is welcome; more action is still needed

Earthjustice has been advocating against drilling in the Arctic for decades. Here’s how we got to where we are today.

Agency failed to consider climate impacts of oil and gas drilling in National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska

Secretary Zinke’s push to drill threatens irreplaceable lands and species and would take us in the wrong direction on climate

Interior Department protects special areas within National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska

‘Hibernation al fresco,’ embracing winter head on

Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico, realization that so little is known about a spill in the Arctic led to a pause