November 20, 2018
The Department of the Interior has announced plans to review the management of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska with the goal of opening up more land to oil and gas drilling and pipelines.
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August 15, 2018
Today, the Department of the Interior received limited industry interest in yet another offshore drilling lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. The sale offered up all available, unleased areas of the Gulf for oil and gas leasing and received bids on just 1 percent of the tracts up for auction. Today’s sale is the third in a series of similarly lackluster sales.
July 30, 2018
This weekend, a representative from the BLM’s Alaska office told Alaska Public Media that, though they haven’t even done an environmental assessment of the impacts of seismic testing in the Arctic Refuge yet, they’ve already decided to issue a draft finding of “no significant impact” and allow the destructive seismic testing to move forward.
July 25, 2018
After deferring a lease sale for fracking in the Greater Chaco area scheduled for March 2018 due to a need for more cultural study and consultation, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to hold another sale this December in the same region, and in expanded drilling areas, despite the fact that no additional study has occurred.
Indigenous and Environmental Groups Respond to BP Endorsement of Trump’s Arctic Refuge Drilling Plan
June 22, 2018
BP America Chairman and President Susan Dio gave the keynote address at a luncheon put on by the Alaska Resource Development Council, in which she expressed BP’s support for the Trump administration’s plan to sell off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas drilling.
June 21, 2018
Last night, in response to public pressure to protect communities from the dangers of neighborhood oil drilling, the Culver City Council voted unanimously to begin the process to study the phase-out of oil drilling in the Inglewood Oil Field.
June 21, 2018
Earthjustice, on behalf of three conservation groups, sued the Trump administration today for failing to complete a legally required consultation about offshore drilling’s harms to threatened and endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico.
June 21, 2018
At an event put on yesterday by the Alaska Resource Development Council, BP America Chairman and President Susan Dio expressed support for the Trump administration’s plan to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas drilling.
June 20, 2018
Yesterday, Donald Trump issued an executive order gutting the National Ocean Policy, which was put in place by President Obama after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 to address the threats facing our oceans.
June 19, 2018
Today, more than 675,000 public comments were submitted to the Department of the Interior in opposition to Secretary Zinke’s plan to hold a lease sale for drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
June 15, 2018
This afternoon a crowd will rally in Washington, DC to condemn the Trump administration’s shameful plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling.
June 15, 2018
Indigenous and environmental groups and concerned citizens are gathering in Washington, DC today to protest the Trump Administration’s proposal to conduct oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.