Earthjustice VS Shell Oil: Courts to decide on Artic drilling
Earthjustice is heading to court to challenge federal approval of Shell Oil’s plan to drill in the Alaskan Arctic’s Beaufort Sea. After the devastating Deepwater Horizon spill, President Obama delayed...
View ArticleObama plans new drilling for Alaska, Gulf
The Obama administration treaded back into turbulent waters on Nov. 8, proposing its first national offshore drilling plan since last year's disastrous Gulf oil spill. Unveiled by Interior Secretary...
View ArticleObama to expand oil, gas drilling off Alaska and in Gulf
WASHINGTON — Angering environmentalists while leaving Republicans unsatisfied, the Obama administration on Tuesday cautiously offered up more areas in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska's coast to oil...
View ArticleUS to open more of Arctic Ocean to oil and gas drilling
Even as the first offshore drilling in the Arctic in nearly two decades is poised to get under way, Obama administration officials said Tuesday they are preparing to open additional areas of the Arctic...
View ArticleExxon Valdez Oil Spill a Cautionary Tale for Arctic Ocean Drilling
As the Obama administration prepares to issue final permits for exploratory oil drilling on the outer continental shelf off Alaska's Arctic coast this summer, the public is hearing some familiar...
View ArticleU.S. coastal waters would be off-limits, but Arctic could see oil, gas...
Arctic waters would be open to new oil and gas development under an Obama administration proposal that keeps the Pacific and Atlantic coasts off-limits to more drilling. The Interior Department's...
View ArticleReport: Science 'gaps' in Arctic
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Decision makers lack key scientific information on what effect oil and gas drilling would have in Arctic offshore waters, according to a report released Thursday that also...
View ArticleAgency lists science 'gaps' on Arctic drilling
ANCHORAGE, Alaska-Decision makers lack key scientific information on what effect oil and gas drilling would have in Arctic offshore waters, according to a report released Thursday that also...
View ArticleUS lists science 'gaps' on Arctic drilling
ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Decision makers lack key scientific information on what effect oil and gas drilling would have in Arctic offshore waters , according to a report released Thursday that also...
View ArticleAgency issues report on Arctic offshore drilling science 'gaps'; spill,...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Decision makers lack key scientific information on what effect oil and gas drilling would have in Arctic offshore waters, according to a report released Thursday that also...
View ArticleGroups challenge Shell Oil's Arctic air permit
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Environmental and Alaska Native groups will try to keep Shell Oil out of Arctic waters this summer by appealing an air permit that was granted by the Environmental Protection...
View ArticleObama to expand drilling off Alaska, in Gulf
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration cautiously offered up more areas in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska's coast to oil and gas drilling Tuesday but didn't go far enough to satisfy...
View ArticleGroups challenge Shell Oil's Arctic air permit
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Environmental and Alaska Native groups will try to keep Shell Oil out of Arctic waters this summer by appealing an air permit that was granted by the Environmental Protection Agency....
View ArticleGroups challenge Shell Oil's Arctic air permit
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Environmental and Alaska Native groups will try to keep Shell Oil out of Arctic waters this summer by appealing an air permit that was granted by the Environmental Protection...
View ArticleAreas of Gulf, Alaska coast OK'd for drilling
The Obama administration cautiously offered up more areas in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska's coast to oil and gas drilling Tuesday but didn't go far enough to satisfy Republicans pushing to...
View ArticleU.S. House "tone deaf" regarding Obama's climate change plan (The Wilderness...
(Source: The Wilderness Society) Three days after President Obama outlined a plan to reduce carbon emissions and to prepare the nation for some of the damaging effects of climate change, the U.S....
View ArticleGroups challenge Shell Oil's Arctic air permit
ANCHORAGE, Alaska Environmental and Alaska Native groups will try to keep Shell Oil out of Arctic waters this summer by appealing an air permit that was granted by the Environmental Protection Agency....
View ArticleUS House Rejects Obama Offshore Drilling Plan
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected the Obama administration's proposed five-year offshore drilling plan, replacing it with legislation that would implement a new drilling plan....
View ArticleGroups challenge Shell Oil's Arctic air permit
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Environmental and Alaska Native groups will try to keep Shell Oil out of Arctic waters this summer by appealing an air permit that was granted by the Environmental Protection...
View ArticleShell wins approval of Arctic spill response plan
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Shell Oil cleared one of the last remaining hurdles to Arctic offshore drilling Friday as the federal government said it has approved the company's spill response plan for the...
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