drilling

Companies Submit First Application for Oil Exploration in the Arctic Refuge

This morning, the Washington Post reported that two corporations, along with an oil services firm, have filed an application with the Department of the Interior to do extensive seismic testing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

At Annual Meeting, Groups Urge Chevron to Stay Away From the Arctic Refuge

Today, as Chevron executives and shareholders meet for their annual meeting, the company is under increasing pressure to pledge not to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Gwich’in Nation Joined by Institutional Investors in Call to Defend Arctic Refuge from Drilling

Investors Totaling More Than $2.5 Trillion in Assets Call on Oil Companies, Banks Not to Support Drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Zinke Seeks to Make Offshore Drilling More Dangerous

The Department of the Interior today unveiled a proposal, to be posted to the Federal Register next week, that would roll back offshore drilling safety rules. The blowout preventer rule was put in place by the Obama administration in response to the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 people and spilled millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico which continues to affect the coast and coastal tourism today.

Threatening Indigenous Rights and Arctic Ecosystem, Interior Launches Process to Open Refuge for Drilling

In a notice that will be officially posted to the Federal Register tomorrow, the Department of the Interior launched the process to hold a lease sale for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Trump Administration Begins Process for Arctic Ocean Offshore Drilling

Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced it will begin the process for an offshore drilling lease sale in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea.

Zinke’s Year of Pushing His Pro-Polluter Agenda

One year ago, Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at exploiting our public lands for fossil fuel development and rolling back Obama-era safeguards. In the year since, Ryan Zinke has made it his mission to be a “partner” with industry while pushing their agenda, ignoring the cost to America’s health, safety, and wild places.

ICYMI: Zinke Seeks to Rush Offshore Drilling Permitting

Yesterday, the Department of the Interior announced that it will seek to identify more ways to speed up permitting for offshore oil and gas drilling off America's coasts.

Zinke’s “Bellwether” Gulf Offshore Lease Sale Falls Flat

Today, the Department of the Interior hosted what it had touted as the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in American history. The sale attracted limited industry interest, receiving bids for just 1 percent of the tracts up for auction.

Court Allows Conservation and Alaska Native groups to challenge Trump’s reversal of Arctic and Atlantic drilling ban

Conservation and Alaska Native groups have a green light to hold President Trump accountable to the rule of law.

Zinke Sells Out Montana

Today Ryan Zinke’s Department of the Interior is wrapping up oil and gas leasing on public lands near the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument. Though the administration walked back the initial leasing proposal, which also included areas near Yellowstone National Park, today’s leases remain a threat to protected public lands and big game herds in an area prized for its elk.

Broad coalition stands up against drilling off of Massachusetts’ coast

Local and state officials, business leaders, environmentalists, and coastal community residents held a rally today to speak out against the Trump administration’s proposal to open up more than 90 percent of the waters off from America’s coast, including an area near Massachusetts, to offshore drilling and seismic testing.