Department of Interior

July 1, 2022 | Press Release

Biden Administration Proposes to Hold Numerous New Federal Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sales in Next Five-Year Program Despite Climate and Environmental Justice Promises

The Department of the Interior proposes a business as usual Five-Year offshore leasing program that offers the same number of lease sales as the 2017 Program, half a decade further into the worsening climate crisis

June 29, 2022 | Press Release

Ending Federal Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sales in Next Five-Year Program Would Have Little to No Impact on Gas Prices, Jobs, and Economy, According to New Analysis

Amid climate crisis and record gas prices, new analysis debunks oil and gas industry claims on need for new federal leasing by offering further evidence that ending new federal offshore leasing would not raise gas prices for nearly two decades, and would have virtually no net economic impact

November 15, 2022 | Feature

Too Sacred To Drill

As Earthjustice built its legal case to protect the Badger-Two Medicine area, the Blackfeet Nation built a movement, drawn together by collective outrage over the oil industry’s demands to drill a treasured landscape.

October 13, 2022 | Press Release

100 Scientists Call on Biden Administration to Save Dwindling Whale in Gulf of Mexico

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

July 21, 2022 | Press Release

Earthjustice Supports Laura Daniel-Davis for Interior Assistant Secretary, Calls for Swift Senate Confirmation

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

July 1, 2022 | In the News: CNN

Biden caught between climate goals and high gas prices as administration releases new drilling plan

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."

April 15, 2022 | Press Release

Earthjustice Responds to Interior’s Announced Onshore Lease Sales and Reforms

Interior announces BLM reforms to onshore oil and gas lease sales including first-ever royalty rate increase on new competitive lease sales

February 22, 2022 | Press Release

Earthjustice Applauds Biden Administration’s Calls for Mining Reform, Urges Truly Sustainable Solutions to Meet the Demands of the Clean Energy Transition

Department of Interior announced the formation of a new interagency working group to inform much-needed changes to mining regulations and legislation

December 23, 2021 | Press Release: Victory

Taylor Energy Settles Lawsuit with Department of Interior to Pay for 14-Year Oil Spill Cleanup in Gulf of Mexico

Taylor Energy settled with the Department of Interior, agreeing to turn over more than $400 million to the government to plug the longest-running offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

December 13, 2021 | In the News: The Guardian

Revealed: Biden administration was not legally bound to auction gulf drilling rights

Brettny Hardy, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “Interior had a lot of discretion over whether to hold this lease sale and they chose to do it anyway.”

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Department of Interior

Biden Administration Proposes to Hold Numerous New Federal Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sales in Next Five-Year Program Despite Climate and Environmental Justice Promises

Ending Federal Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sales in Next Five-Year Program Would Have Little to No Impact on Gas Prices, Jobs, and Economy, According to New Analysis

Too Sacred To Drill

100 Scientists Call on Biden Administration to Save Dwindling Whale in Gulf of Mexico

Earthjustice Supports Laura Daniel-Davis for Interior Assistant Secretary, Calls for Swift Senate Confirmation

Biden caught between climate goals and high gas prices as administration releases new drilling plan

Earthjustice Responds to Interior’s Announced Onshore Lease Sales and Reforms

Earthjustice Applauds Biden Administration’s Calls for Mining Reform, Urges Truly Sustainable Solutions to Meet the Demands of the Clean Energy Transition

Taylor Energy Settles Lawsuit with Department of Interior to Pay for 14-Year Oil Spill Cleanup in Gulf of Mexico

Revealed: Biden administration was not legally bound to auction gulf drilling rights

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