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Environmental, Gulf Groups React to API Lawsuit Targeting Five-Year Drilling Plan; Seek Stronger Protections for Gulf of Mexico
Environmental and Gulf-based groups filed a legal challenge today to hold the Interior Department accountable for failing to adequately consider the public health impacts on frontline communities in its final Five-Year Program. Read More
Fossil Fuel Speculators Benefit Most From Pending LNG Terminals, Sticking U.S. Consumers with Higher Bills, Analysis Shows
A new report shows that expanding LNG export infrastructure would primarily benefit Big Oil and speculators while harming US utility customers and causing a massive surge in climate pollution. Read More
Global call for United States to change course on LNG at COP28 climate talks
Over 300 organizations from over 40 countries across the globe released a letter today calling on the Biden Administration to abandon its support for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) at COP28 in Dubai. Read More
Lawsuit Challenges Massive Offshore Lease Sale for Failing to Properly Consider Gulf Communities and Climate
Gulf community and environmental groups sued the Department of the Interior today to challenge a September offshore oil and gas lease sale that would offer up more than 67 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas leasing. Read More
Friends of the Earth Slams Climate Omission in New Oil and Gas Leasing Rule
The Biden Administration’s Bureau of Land Management announced a new rulemaking today to overhaul public lands leasing that neglects to address the significant climate impacts of oil and gas drilling Read More
Gulf and Environmental Groups Call on Interior Department to End Routine Fast-Tracking of Offshore Oil Drilling Projects
Six Gulf and national environmental groups submitted a petition today to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) calling on the agency to end a routine practice of fast-tracking approval for offshore oil and gas projects. Read More
New Records Request Targets DOE’s LNG greenwashing scheme
Friends of the Earth has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request targeting the Department of Energy after reports that the agency is colluding with industry behind closed doors to develop an international standard for differentiated or so-called “clean” gas in order to boost LNG exports. Read More
Biden Administration Spearheads Massive Public Lands Giveaway
The Biden Administration continued its string of oil and gas lease sales on federal lands with a massive sale of more than 100,000 acres in Wyoming this week, an area more than twice the size of Washington, DC. Read More
Biden Administration Rejects Calls to Phase Out Oil, Gas on Public Lands by 2035
Responding to a lawsuit by conservation groups, the Biden administration has officially rejected a rulemaking petition from more than 360 U.S. climate, Indigenous and conservation groups to phase out oil and gas extraction on public lands by 2035. Read More
Lawsuit Challenges Oil and Gas Drilling on California Public Lands
Conservation organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s Bureau of Land Management seeking to halt the unlawful drilling of multiple oil and gas wells in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Read More