The Latest On: Oil and Gas Drilling
January 22, 2020
| In the News: Daily Inter Lake
Court Hears Arguments on Last Oil, Gas Lease
Timothy Preso, Managing Attorney, Northern Rockies Office, Earthjustice: “Oil and gas development on this lease would inflict such a severe blow to the Blackfeet Tribe’s cultural interests that their ability to practice their cultural traditions in this area would be lost.”
January 14, 2020
| In the News: USA Today
Conservation Groups Sue BLM Over California Fracking Plan
Michelle Ghafar, Attorney, Earthjustice: “A federal court already agreed with us once that the BLM failed to fully evaluate the impacts of the oil and gas expansion it is authorizing on public land. We’re returning to court once again to ensure the agency properly analyzes the impacts of devastating fracking activities in its plan.”
December 23, 2019
| In the News: KUER
District Court Will Hear Public Lands Fracking Lawsuit In January
Michael Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office, Earthjustice: “The effect of that [rescinded rule] was to leave all oil and gas development on federal lands in this country subject to really outdated and inadequate federal standards of our lands and our water and our public health.”
October 11, 2019
| In the News: Associated Press
Feds Seek To Move Trump Drilling Rules Challenge Out Of California
Chris Eaton, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “This rule affects all the country — all the coastlines.”
