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.
Read moreConservation groups say a large-scale oil drilling project on 1.2 million acres in Northern Alaska will exacerbate climate change and harm endangered species.
Read moreDrill, 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreAs 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.
Read moreCalling 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey vowed Tuesday to press ahead with searching for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreTurkey 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.
Read moreDrilling 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.
Read moreChesapeake Energy, a shale drilling pioneer that helped to turn the United States into a global energy powerhouse, has filed for bankruptcy protection.
Read moreLandowners 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.
Read moreOil 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 moreThe 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 moreTen 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.
Read moreA decade after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a lack of safety protocols and inadequate government oversight has not reduced
Read moreA 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.
Read moreInside 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.
Read moreEnvironmentalists 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.
Read moreJPMorgan 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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