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Groups to hold virtual press briefing today at 12 pm ET

The unprecedented blanket-exemption would leave numerous Gulf species and ecosystems unprotected and vulnerable to extinction, including the critically endangered Rice’s whale, sea turtles, fish, rays, corals, and birds.

Panel of appointees aligns with “national security” rationale from Secretary of Defense

Suit claims Bureau of Land Management walked away from 2015 commitments to sage-grouse to benefit oil and gas industry

Montana Wildlife Federation, Defenders of Wildlife, and The Wilderness Society sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its abandonment of critical protections for the declining greater sage-grouse.

Vast natural areas, long protected from extraction, were included in 187 tracts that oil and gas companies bid on for oil development

Earthjustice works to defend Alaska’s ecosystems from these threats in partnership with local communities. This day-in, day-out work is made possible by supporters like you.

The offshore oil drilling project would push into riskier, deeper waters than the infamous Deepwater Horizon rig.

Move would threaten rare whales, fish, rays, sea turtles, and corals

The government just greenlit BP’s proposal for a new ultra-deepwater drilling project in the Gulf, despite significant red flags.

New oil-and-gas leases will lock in decades of pollution; won’t lower Americans’ energy bills

Trump administration plans to hold sale in violation of Endangered Species Act, putting extremely vulnerable Cook Inlet beluga whales at risk

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.

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.

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

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