Category: Alaska

A group of investment firms, conservationists and indigenous groups have called on some of the world’s biggest insurers to cease supporting oil and gas projects in the U.S. Arctic National Continue Reading

A polar bear walks across rubble ice in the Alaska portion of the southern Beaufort Sea. (Mike Lockhart/USGS/AP) The Trump administration is asking oil and gas firms to pick spots Continue Reading

The Trump administration is advancing plans to auction drilling rights in the U.S. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has vowed to block oil Continue Reading

 The Trump Administration will take key steps to finalize a sale of oil drilling leases in the sensitive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska just before Democrat Joseph Biden, Continue Reading

The Bureau of Land Management approved a ConocoPhillips-led oil exploration project in Alaska, which could yield some 160,000 barrels of crude daily when it becomes operational, the BLM said . Continue Reading

Highlights Election uncertainties could cause delays BLM might be weighing how to integrate new lands Nanushuk formation extends to possible acreage Anchorage — Two Alaska North Slope lease sales normally Continue Reading

A top official at the Interior Department has delayed the release of a study that shows how oil and gas drilling in Alaska could encroach upon the territory of polar Continue Reading

The group of 15 Democrat-led states alleges the plan fails to account for danger to wildlife and climate-change impacts. (Bloomberg) — A group of 15 Democrat-led states sued to block Continue Reading

Environmentalists and Alaska natives are challenging the Trump administration’s decision to sell drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, arguing the government gave short shrift to the impact on polar Continue Reading