Protecting America’s Public Lands and Waters from Drilling

Photo by Loren Blackford
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of America's last truly wild places and must be preserved. | Photo by Loren Blackford

Public lands and waters should never be threatened by oil and gas drilling. We work to protect these special places from legislative assaults and federal regulatory rollbacks that threaten to open them up to exploitation by the fossil fuel industry.

November 17, 2022

Today, U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez and Sen. Ben Ray Lujan introduced the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act, a move recognized by the Greater Chaco Coalition as a step in the right direction. Though the Coalition supports this legislation, more needs to be done to address the cumulative impact of extractive industries on the Greater Chaco Landscape and its communities.

11 de noviembre de 2022

La administración Biden ha propuesto la Regulación sobre Riesgos y Resiliencia Climáticos de los Abastecedores Federales, la cual requeriría a los grandes contratistas federales revelar públicamente sus emisiones de efecto invernadero.

November 8, 2022

Today, coinciding with the third day of COP27, the White House released two reports on advancing nature-based solutions to address climate change. The first is the Nature-Based Solutions Roadmap, which outlines recommendations for America to employ nature-based solutions in addressing the climate crisis, nature loss, and inequity. In addition to the Roadmap, the Administration released The Nature-Based Solutions Resource Guide: Compendium of Federal Examples, Guidance, Resource Documents, Tools and Technical Assistance, a companion resource guide with examples of nature-based solutions…

12 de octubre de 2022

La Casa Blanca anunció hoy la primera designación de monumento nacional del Presidente Biden, Camp Hale-Continental Divide.

October 12, 2022

Denver, COLORADO – Today, the White House announced its newest protected public land, the Camp Hale-Continental

3 de octubre de 2022

La Corte Suprema escuchó hoy argumentos orales del caso Sackett vs Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), un intento de la industria de combustibles fósiles de desmantelar la Ley de Agua Limpia.

September 20, 2022

Today, the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on the Public Lands and Waters Climate Leadership Act. This bill was introduced last week by Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and other members of the Committee. 

September 7, 2022

Great Falls, MT—Conservation groups and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) yesterday reached a settlement agreement that will prevent new oil and gas drilling on 58,000 acres of public lands in Montana and the Dakotas pending a new analysis of it

September 6, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC — A federal judge in Wyoming

August 11, 2022

Conservation groups and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management have finalized a legal agreement that will prevent new oil and gas leasing across 2.2 million acres of southwestern Colorado until the agency supplements its environmental analysis and releases an amended plan for lands in the area.