Oil

The Latest On: Oil

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

February 1, 2023 | Update

Arctic Oil Project Advances as Biden Administration Says Yes to Carbon Bomb

The administration is one step closer to green-lighting the massive Willow Arctic oil drilling project, which would threaten the climate and the Western Arctic.

February 1, 2023 | Press Release

Earthjustice Responds to Biden Administration Decision Advancing ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project

Oil-and-gas drilling plan would transform irreplaceable Arctic ecosystem into a carbon bomb

January 27, 2023 | Press Release

House Republican Bill Sacrifices Public Lands for Fossil Fuel Profits

Earthjustice blasts House passage of Strategic Production Response Act.

January 27, 2023 | Legal Document

SPR Coalition Letter

Strategic Production Response Coalition letter

January 20, 2023 | Article

How’s Biden Doing on the Climate Crisis?

Earthjustice’s attorneys and policy experts rated his administration's progress.

January 19, 2023 | Update

President Biden Has 2 Years Left to Lead on Climate. Here Are the Steps He Must Take Now.

To meet its commitments to climate, the Biden administration needs to take faster and bolder actions to transition to a clean energy future. Here’s how you can help.

January 10, 2023 | Article

One of the Most Important Agencies Overseeing U.S. Energy Faces Deadlock

A vacancy at a little-known but critical federal agency threatens to stall U.S. climate goals. Help us urge Biden to fill the seat.

December 21, 2022 | Legal Document

Cook Inlet Lease Sale 258

National and community-based environmental groups filed a legal challenge to stop the Department of Interior’s lease sale in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Lease Sale 258, scheduled for Dec. 30, 2022, would auction off nearly a million acres of federal waters in Southcentral Alaska, opening the door to decades of future oil-and-gas drilling.