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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
Alaska Native Tribes, Southeast Alaska Businesses and Forest Advocates Defend Tongass National Forest’s Roadless Rule
A broad coalition of forest advocates is seeking to defend last year’s reinstatement of National Roadless Rule protections across the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska through several legal challenges. Read More
Alaska District Court Rules Willow Oil Project Can Proceed; Conservation Groups Plan To File Appeal
Environmental groups intend to challenge today’s federal court ruling that the Willow oil drilling project in Alaska’s Western Arctic can proceed. Read More
Protect All Our Coasts Coalition Responds to the Biden Administration’s Five-Year Plan for Offshore Drilling
Biden unfortunately has once again chosen Big Oil profits over what's right for the climate and Gulf communities. Read More
Environmental Groups Appeal Court Order to Remove Protections for Endangered Whale from Gulf Lease Sale
Environmental groups appealed a court order today that granted a preliminary injunction by oil companies to remove protections for the critically endangered Rice’s whale included in upcoming Gulf lease sale 261. Read More
Friends of the Earth Responds to Interior’s Announcements for Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
WASHINGTON – Today, the Biden Administration announced a set of new regulations regarding land use for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (Western Arctic) and the cancellation of remaining oil and gas leases issued by the Trump Administration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 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
Lawsuit spurs agreement to better protect endangered Rice’s whale from offshore drilling
Under a settlement agreement approved today in the U.S. District Court in Maryland, federal agencies will seek better ways to protect the Rice’s whale – a critically endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico – and other imperiled marine species from harmful oil and gas drilling. Read More
Friends of the Earth Applauds National Monument Designation for Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon
WASHINGTON – Today, the Biden Administration designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni, or Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon, as a national monument. The monument is home to over 3,000 cultural and historic resources and provides water to at least 40 million people. Read More
Friends of the Earth Denounces Congressional Attacks on the Endangered Species Act
WASHINGTON – Today, the House passed resolutions under the Congressional Review Act that permanently remove protections for the lesser prairie chicken and long-eared bat, currently safeguarded by the Endangered Species Act. The Senate passed these resolutions in May, leading to strong condemnation from… Read More