Letter comes on eve of the 14th anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon spill

Fossil fuel industry will be made more responsible for costs of decommissioning offshore drilling projects

Alexandra Schluntz, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “We really think this should be a wakeup call for the BLM. This case shows that the BLM has a lot of work to do to improve its process for leasing lands to oil and gas development, and improve how it’s analyzing and protecting the environment while it’s making…

Northern Cheyenne Tribe and conservation groups urge Interior Department to act on coal

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a lawsuit from the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and conservation groups that had successfully reinstated the Obama-era coal leasing moratorium is moot.

As the oil industry pursues a max-out strategy for fossil fuel development in the Gulf with a new legal challenge, advocates flag serious climate, public health, and environmental concerns

Environmental groups and Gulf-based organizations filed a legal challenge to hold the Interior Department accountable for failing to adequately consider the public health impacts on frontline communities in its final Five-Year Program.

Court allows Department of Interior to delay Gulf of Mexico oil and gas auction to November 8, 2023.

The Blackfeet Nation has prevailed in a four-decade fight to fend off oil and gas development in the Badger-Two Medicine region of Montana.

A five-year offshore oil and gas leasing plan that will be announced later in September may include 10+ additional offshore oil lease sales.

Plaintiffs challenge the unlawful decision by Secretary of the Interior Debra Haaland to hold Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale 261 based on insufficient and arbitrary environmental analyses, in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.

Bureau of Land Management revisits oil and gas leasing system for first time in decades

Congress must reject these poison pill riders and non-negotiable provisions that will harm communities and the environment.

Wide-ranging rule will include Bureau of Land Management forest policies

Groups demand federal agencies enforce laws to protect area and landowners from criminally-convicted corporation

Leading scientists alarmed of U.S. risk for first human-caused extinction of a great whale species

If confirmed, Laura Daniel-Davis will serve as Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary for Lands and Mineral Management

Brettny Hardy, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “The oil industry is trying to put pressure and make it sound like it’s a dire situation with the gas prices, and leasing would fix this situation when it just wouldn’t.”