Oil

The Latest On: Oil

August 17, 2020 | Press Release

Trump Administration Finalizes Plan to Drill for Oil in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Plan ignores climate change; targets cherished public lands area held sacred by Indigenous people

August 14, 2020

Insider Briefing: How a Historic Grassroots Resistance and the Power of the Law Could Cancel the Dakota Access Pipeline

Earthjustice staff members share an inside look at the case, the implications of the most recent legal developments, and the activism of the Standing Rock Sioux that fueled this historic victory and ushered in a new chapter in the global Indigenous environmental movement.

August 14, 2020 | Press Release

Trump Administration Moves Ahead With Western Arctic Oil Development Plan, Continuing Arctic Exploitation

Statement from Earthjustice, Alaska Wilderness League, National Audubon Society, Native Movement, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Sovereign Iñupiat For a Living Arctic, and Trustees for Alaska

August 12, 2020 | Press Release: Victory

Judge Grants Bay Mills Indian Community Permission to Intervene in Michigan Pipeline Fight

Earthjustice to represent Bay Mills in case against oil giant

August 10, 2020 | In the News: Reuters

Judge Gives U.S. Three Weeks To Detail Dakota Access Pipeline Options

August 5, 2020 | Press Release

D.C. Circuit Issues Mixed Decision on Dakota Access Shutdown Order

Oil to continue flowing pending additional court proceedings; but pipeline effectively operating illegally

August 5, 2020 | Legal Document

Dakota Access Pipeline: D.C. Circuit Decision

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issues a mixed decision on #DAPL shutdown. The permit remains vacated, but the district court must make additional findings before pipeline is shut down.

July 20, 2020 | Legal Document

Tribes’ Joint Opposition to Stay Motion

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, along with the other three plaintiff Tribes, file their opposition to the emergency motions for stay pending appeal.

July 13, 2020 | In the News: Gizmodo

Indigenous Protests Are Blazing a New Trail for How to Beat Big Oil

Jan Hasselman, Attorney, Northwest Office: “[Standing Rock] has been particularly transformative in the way that we think about and talk about these issues. In the DAPL fight, it feels like we reoriented toward more of a framework around justice and a reckoning of the ways in which Indigenous people have been mistreated.”

July 10, 2020 | Legal Document

Dakota Access Pipeline: Motion for Stay Pending Appeal

Filed in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by Dakota Access, LLC