This weekend, a representative from the BLM’s Alaska office told Alaska Public Media that, though they haven’t even done an environmental assessment of the impacts of seismic testing in the Arctic Refuge yet, they’ve already decided to issue a draft finding of “no significant impact” and allow the destructive seismic testing to move forward.
After deferring a lease sale for fracking in the Greater Chaco area scheduled for March 2018 due to a need for more cultural study and consultation, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to hold another sale this December in the same region, and in expanded drilling areas, despite the fact that no additional study has occurred.
BP America Chairman and President Susan Dio gave the keynote address at a luncheon put on by the Alaska Resource Development Council, in which she expressed BP’s support for the Trump administration’s plan to sell off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas drilling.
Last night, in response to public pressure to protect communities from the dangers of neighborhood oil drilling, the Culver City Council voted unanimously to begin the process to study the phase-out of oil drilling in the Inglewood Oil Field.
Earthjustice, on behalf of three conservation groups, sued the Trump administration today for failing to complete a legally required consultation about offshore drilling’s harms to threatened and endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico.
At an event put on yesterday by the Alaska Resource Development Council, BP America Chairman and President Susan Dio expressed support for the Trump administration’s plan to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas drilling.
Yesterday, Donald Trump issued an executive order gutting the National Ocean Policy, which was put in place by President Obama after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 to address the threats facing our oceans.
Today, more than 675,000 public comments were submitted to the Department of the Interior in opposition to Secretary Zinke’s plan to hold a lease sale for drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
This afternoon a crowd will rally in Washington, DC to condemn the Trump administration’s shameful plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling.
Indigenous and environmental groups and concerned citizens are gathering in Washington, DC today to protest the Trump Administration’s proposal to conduct oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club is mobilizing its members across the country to attend the March for the Ocean. In Washington DC, and around the country, the March for the Ocean Campaign is mounting mass marches, flotillas and rallies, calling for a stop to offshore drilling that threatens our ocean and coastlines and action to protect coastal communities, protect the ocean, and secure clean water for all.
The Department of the Interior sent a memo yesterday to all Bureau of Land Management (BLM) field offices instructing them to speed up environmental reviews of proposed fossil fuel drilling projects on public lands.