Diné, Pueblo, and allied groups condemn the Trump Administration’s proposal to revoke Public Land Order (PLO) 7923, which withdraws federal minerals from future oil and gas leasing within approximately 10-miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republicans have approved resolutions intended to undermine the protection of millions of acres of public lands in Alaska and overturning guardrails on coal leasing in Wyoming.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the Department of the Interior released a draft plan that would open up the largest contiguous piece of public lands in the country to oil and gas drilling. The draft plan would open up 82 percent of the Western Arctic to drilling. The Western Arctic comprises 23 million acres of public lands in northwest Alaska.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Trump administration took a step in revoking a major federal rule protecting public lands in its latest giveaway to corporate polluters.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — This morning, Sable Offshore announced that they have restarted oil production at the Santa Ynez Unit off the coast of Santa Barbara, with imminent plans to restart the same corroded pipeline that caused the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill exactly 10 years ago.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the Refugio Oil Spill, when more than 120,000 gallons of crude oil spilled onto Santa Barbara beaches and into the ocean, killing marine life, destroying habitat and closing local businesses.
On Sunday, to commemorate the anniversary, more than 100 environmentalists, surfers, students and community members filled the beach and paddled out to the site of the 2015 spill.
Today, Donald Trump is meeting with oil and gas executives, including members of the American Petroleum Institute, at the White House.
Denver, CO — Today, the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) approved a Comprehensive Area Plan (CAP) for an over 150 fracking well expansion at Lowry Ranch, handing a victory to the oil and gas industry despite years of pushback and advocacy from Aurora residents and environmental advocates.
The Federal Trade Commission has uncovered efforts by former CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources Scott Sheffield to collude with OPEC in order to increase the price of oil through agreed up cuts in production. The conduct was discovered as part of an investigation into the $64 billion acquisition of Pioneer by Exxon Mobil, which FTC says it will not reject as long as Sheffield is not named to the board.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration gave formal approval Monday for a huge oil export project in Texas known as Sea Port Oil Terminal (SPOT), despite widespread opposition because of its impacts to public health and safety, the climate, and the environment.
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the unsound approval of a massive deepwater oil export facility off the Gulf Coast near Brazoria County, Texas.
Washington D.C.— Today the Indigenous Women’s Treaty Alliance and environmental groups delivered a petition with 9,000+ signatures calling on the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a robust environmental review of the Line 5 crude oil pipeline reroute. The petition builds on growing momentum to shut down Line 5 permanently.