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Groups and individuals from across Alaska to express alarm and strong opposition to the proposal by the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM) to open nearly all federal waters off Alaska’s coasts — nearly 1 billion acres — to fossil fuel extraction under the 11th national offshore drilling plan.

Vast natural areas long protected from extraction will now be offered to oil companies for drilling

The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth U.S., represented by Earthjustice, are challenging the lease sale and the underlying management plan, or Integrated Activity Plan, that opens 18.5 million acres within the 23-million-acre Reserve to potential oil and gas drilling and infrastructure. The groups filed an amended and supplemented complaint in Alaska’s federal court that restarts a paused 2020 lawsuit from the first Trump administration.

The administration’s proposal sets a dangerous precedent on public land management, reversing longstanding practice

American Prairie challenged a U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposal that, if approved, will revoke grazing permits used to sustain the group’s bison herd in north-central Montana.

Conservation groups represented by Earthjustice issued a letter to the Bureau of Land Management and to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum providing the required 60-day notice of the groups’ intent to sue federal agencies for violating the Endangered Species Act. The letter alerts agencies that the groups plan to sue to protect threatened polar bears from oil and gas leasing and extraction in the Western Arctic.

County pushed to assess new information on ecologically sensitive area

Plaintiffs Center for Biological Diversity, Conservation Council for Hawai‘i, and Kūpa‘a Kuilima complain of Defendants City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting and Host Hotels & Resorts, L.P.

Interior’s “Call for Nominations” invites companies to choose public lands areas it wants to bid on in a future lease sale

A vote before Congress could open the door to mining in the watershed of the treasured Boundary Waters wilderness.

Thanks to last year’s victory in a challenge brought by Southwest Alaska Tribes, the agencies had to supplement the mine’s environmental study to examine the risks of a larger tailings spill

The ruling allows ConocoPhillips to proceed with its plans for winter exploration program

A federal court ruling allows ConocoPhillips to continue its winter seismic and exploration drilling program in the Western Arctic despite concerns about the harm it would cause to wildlife, sensitive habitats and the subsistence and cultural values of local Alaska Native people and other Arctic residents.

The industry doesn’t exist yet beyond a few small projects. Here’s why it should never take off.

The U.S. Forest Service releases a final environmental impact statement moving forward with the largest old-growth logging project on the Tongass in years

Markup scheduled for Thursday on legislation to prematurely strip Endangered Species Act protections

The House Natural Resources Committee scheduled a markup on legislation to prematurely remove Endangered Species Act protections for the Mexican gray wolf – one of the most endangered mammals in the United States. Over 70 organizations sent a letter to the House of Representatives urging members to vote against the bill.

Suit seeks U.S. ban on New Zealand seafood as fishing fleets harm rare Māui and Hector’s dolphins