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Press Release September 28, 2026

Earthjustice Condemns Trump Administration’s Rollback of Fuel Economy Standards

At a time when households nationwide are being squeezed by rising prices, the final rule will make people pay more at the pump
Musk oxen were hunted to extinction in Alaska, but were reintroduced with animals from Greenland nearly a century ago. Today, herds roam free across the state, including the Western Arctic Reserve. (Gerrit Vyn / Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
feature September 16, 2026

Guide to Public Hearing for Arctic Drilling

This is our last chance to speak directly to BLM and urge them to protect the Arctic from unnecessary drilling.
In the News: Colorado Sun September 10, 2026

BLM ignored wildlife migration when it leased Colorado land for oil and gas drilling, lawsuit claims

Clay Samford, Attorney, Biodiversity Defense Program: “There’s important big-game habitat, big-game migration corridors that are important to the people of Colorado and Wyoming in these sales.”
Press Release September 8, 2026

Conservation Groups Challenge Oil and Gas Lease Sales in Big Game Migration Corridors

Lease sales in Colorado and Wyoming threaten sensitive public land resources and habitat
document September 8, 2026

Complaint: Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Colorado and Wyoming

Conservation groups filed suit over the Trump administration’s approval of two large oil and gas lease sales in Colorado and Wyoming, which threaten big game migration corridors and pristine, wilderness-quality…
In the News: The Hill September 4, 2026

Trump administration moves to fast-track oil drilling approvals in Alaska

Erik Grafe, Managing Attorney, Alaska Office: “These are large-scale, industrial activities that cause permanent damage to sensitive Arctic ecosystems, nearby communities, and the climate.”
Caribou make their way across the Teshekpuk Lake area of northern Alaska. (Kiliii Yuyan for Earthjustice)
Press Release September 4, 2026

Trump Administration Proposes Regulations to Rubber Stamp Drilling in Alaska’s Western Arctic

The regulations proposed at the request of the oil industry seek to greenlight potentially massive new oil development in sensitive areas of the Western Arctic
From the Experts September 1, 2026

Moving Beyond Harmful Bioenergy, Together

The truth and common misconceptions about biomass, biogas, and biofuel energy.
In the News: High Country News August 26, 2026

Arctic drilling in Alaska won’t get environmental review in new proposal

Jeremy Lieb, Attorney, Alaska Office: “Drilling and seismic exploration for oil and gas in the Arctic are large-scale, industrial activities that cause significant, lasting negative impacts to the environment and nearby communities.”
In the News: E&E News August 25, 2026

On Louisiana LNG Terminal

Nathan Matthews, Attorney: “FERC acknowledges the harm it’s causing by approving the massive CP2 LNG terminal and gas pipeline, but FERC approved the project anyway. These agencies must go back to the drawing board to do their jobs and properly serve the public interest.”
In the News: E&E News August 24, 2026

Trump’s offshore drilling revival survives early court challenge

George Torgun, Attorney, Oceans Program: “We continue to maintain that President Trump’s attempt to open withdrawn areas for oil leasing is unlawful, and we intend to pursue those claims if and when any offshore activities are on the horizon.”
In the News: KOSU August 13, 2026

Federal judge vacates illegal federal approvals for fracking on Pawnee trust land in Oklahoma

Michael Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “The federal government made a lot of mistakes in approving these wells. But it’s really good to see the court upholding the law and requiring the Interior Department to actually involve the Pawnee Nation and other tribal tribal members when it approves oil and…
Winter at the Roan Plateau in Colorado. (Photo courtesy of SkyTruth)
Press Release August 12, 2026

BLM Moves Forward With Proposed Oil and Gas Leasing on the Iconic Roan Plateau in Western Colorado

Release of Environmental Assessment begins 30-day public comment period
In the News: The Washington Post July 9, 2026

Government considers unusual site for launching space missions

Steve Mashuda, Managing Attorney, Oceans Program: “Letting the oil-and-gas industry off the hook so billionaires can launch rockets and spew more toxics into our public waters is a massive insult to Gulf communities and poses a new threat to vulnerable marine life.”
The 19 million acres of tundra, rivers and mountains of the Arctic Refuge shelter migratory birds from all 50 states and six continents each summer. To the Gwich'in people of northeast Alaska, this is sacred ground. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Update June 5, 2026

Big Oil Stays Away from the Arctic Refuge, But the Fight Isn’t Over

The Trump administration tried to sell off the Arctic Wildlife Refuge to Big Oil with a lease sale on June 5.
Polar bears on the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Florian Schulz / protectthearctic.org)
Press Release June 5, 2026

Lease Sale Seeks to Transform Arctic National Wildlife Refuge into a Fossil Fuel Industrial Zone

All major oil companies refused to bid; one small oil company and a state of Alaska-sponsored corporation snapped up five leases in a rush to exploit the Refuge’s Coastal Plain
In the News: Courthouse News Service May 20, 2026

Oil leases on sage grouse habitat

Sharmeen Morrison, Attorney, Biodiversity Defense Program: “The sales all flow from BLM’s unlawful interpretation of the prioritization requirement, including as manifest in the 2018 instruction memorandum, which relegated BLM to a passive administrator of the leasing process and did nothing to guide or encourage leasing away from sage grouse habitat.”
In the News: RE:PUBLIC May 18, 2026

The Plan to Rubber-Stamp Arctic Drilling

Erik Grafe, Managing Attorney, Alaska Office: “The Western Arctic is the place that has the most industry interest, and the administration is going all out.”