Alaska Oil Drilling Project Blocked Ahead of Ninth Circuit Challenge
Conservation groups say a large-scale oil drilling project on 1.2 million acres in Northern Alaska will exacerbate climate change and harm endangered species.
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Biden to Bar Oil & Gas Drilling on Federal Lands
Drill, baby, drill? Not so fast. President Biden is expected to announce an executive order on Wednesday that will bring new oil and gas permits on federal lands to a halt, putting climate change front and center.
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Trump Plans Would Ease Protections for Sage Grouse in West
The Trump administration announced plans Thursday that ease protections for sage grouse in the West, prompting an outcry by critics who say the move paves the way for widespread mining and drilling and ignores a federal court ruling.
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Drill Permits for Arctic Refuge Slated to Close Out Trump’s Term
As it makes its reluctant exit from the White House, the Trump administration will issue a call to enterprising oil and gas developers eyeballing Alaska: the time is now to secure drilling rights in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Trump Announces Ban on Offshore Drilling Off Atlantic Coast
Calling himself a “great environmentalist,” President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he would be expanding a ban on new offshore drilling off the coasts of certain Atlantic states in a reversal of his previous support for it.
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Pristine Wildlife Refuge in Alaska Approved for Oil and Gas Drilling
The Trump administration opened the largest remaining area of pristine land in the country — Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — to oil drilling Monday in the midst of a worldwide oil glut.
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Turkey Vows to Press Ahead With Energy Search Amid Tensions
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey vowed Tuesday to press ahead with searching for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean
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LA Oil Facility Hit With Criminal Charges Over Leaks, Fumes
The operators of a neighborhood oil drilling operation will face criminal charges for environmental and health violations stemming from noxious fumes that made south Los Angeles residents ill.
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Turkey to Suspend Research in Waters Disputed With Greece
Turkey will suspend research for oil and gas exploration in disputed waters in the Eastern Mediterranean that abruptly raised military tensions with neighboring Greece, a top Turkish official said Tuesday.
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Ninth Circuit Greenlights Drilling in Alaska Reserve
Drilling can proceed in a sensitive Alaskan reserve without an update to the government’s 2012 assessment of whether the oil and gas development would speed up climate change, and despite the fact that the assessment was completed four years before the oil at issue was discovered, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday.
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Fracking Pioneer Chesapeake Files for Bankruptcy Protection
Chesapeake Energy, a shale drilling pioneer that helped to turn the United States into a global energy powerhouse, has filed for bankruptcy protection.
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Landowners sued Permian Highway Pipeline and Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline in federal court, claiming they “pumped 36,000 gallons of drilling fluid containing at least seven different Class 1 probable human carcinogens into the aquifer near Blanco, Texas,” and refuse to clean it up.
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Oil and gas company E&B Natural Resources Management Corp. does not have a vested right to continue drilling at Livermore Oil Field, a federal court in California ruled. The company claimed Alameda County arbitrarily denied its permit to continue operating at the field because it “could” contaminate the aquifer.
Read moreOil Leases
The Northern Alaska Environmental Center et al. sued the Department of the Interior in Anchorage Federal Court for failing to conduct environmental impact statement or environment assessments before offering leases to drill for oil on 3.9 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska.
Read more10 Years After BP Spill: Oil Drilled Deeper and Rules Relaxed
Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling in deeper and deeper waters, where payoffs can be huge but risks are greater than ever.
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Report: 10 Years After Worst US Oil Spill, Little Has Changed
A decade after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a lack of safety protocols and inadequate government oversight has not reduced
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A California appeals court upheld a ruling against advocacy groups challenging the state’s issuance of 213 permits to drill new oil wells in Kern county. The state Department of Conservation did not violate the California Environmental Quality Act, the court ruled, because the project approvals were ministerial and did not require an environmental review.
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Water Theft a Growing Concern in Increasingly Dry Spain
Inside her greenhouse, Emilia Gomez bends down to see how her strawberries are faring following a difficult season with barely any water after her farm’s illegal well was shut down.
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Judge Warned That Gulf Oil Leases Ignore Spill Risks
Environmentalists on Wednesday updated their court battle to stop the sale of what they call “fatally flawed” oil and gas drilling leases at risk of causing a blowout or catastrophic oil spill.
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JPMorgan Will Stop Lending to Coal Companies
JPMorgan Chase & Co. will no longer do business with coal companies and will restrict financing to companies that drill in the Arctic, the company said Tuesday.
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