The US Interior Department must consider the climatic consequences of oil and gas leasing

After Judge Rudolph Contreras of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia denied industry groups' motion to dismiss three previous settlements from lawsuits brought by western US conservation groups against the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management, the requ...

UNTOUCHED FOR 3 DECADES, ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE WILL OPEN FOR DRILLING

Highlights:

•       The Trump government is leaning on a 2017 bill that authorizes the drilling of coastal plains in the ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

•       This move is opposed by the environmentalists<...