Polar bears can’t go to court, but we can
We just sued the Biden administration for issuing a regulation that allows...
16 September, 2021
Moving the needle on climate action and Arctic health
August brought good news for the Arctic and planet when a federal...
15 September, 2021
Big court win voids permits for ConocoPhillips’ Willow project
Western Arctic health and climate action won big today in court when...
18 August, 2021
Alaska News Brief August 2021: When the raspberries pop
The raspberries in my yard started to pop this week,...
18 August, 2021
Biden regulation imperils polar bears
Earlier this month the Biden administration released a regulation that allows oil...
18 August, 2021
Alaska News Brief July 2021: On finding happiness (and social skills)
I visited my family in the Lower 48 last month, and wow,...
14 July, 2021
Arctic Refuge fills the heart with awe
Attorney Suzanne Bostrom just got back from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....
13 July, 2021
Calling out the ConocoPhillips’ Willow carbon bomb in court
We were in court calling out an illegal Trump-era approval of the...
12 July, 2021
Alaska News Brief June 2021: Getting your hands dirty helps
A few weeks ago, I took some time off to pick up...
16 June, 2021
The good news, and the bad, for Alaska’s Arctic
While the Biden administration promises climate action and clean energy, and Alaska’s...
15 June, 2021
Biden administration undermines climate promises
The Biden administration confirmed through legal briefs filed in court May 26...
27 May, 2021
Alaska News Brief May 2021: Shining light on what the world could be
In our work, we sometimes talk about going on the defensive. For...
19 May, 2021
Join day of action to demand forever protections for the Arctic Refuge
In his first days in office, President Biden temporarily protected sacred and public lands in...
18 May, 2021
Alaska New Brief March 2021: A year can change everything… and nothing
It’s hard to believe it has been a year since we first...
16 March, 2021
Our 2021 view of the lawsuits and issues
Things look far rosier now than a year ago when it comes...
16 March, 2021
Shining light on the Arctic
Despite four years of intense arm-twisting by political players and industry insiders...
17 February, 2021
Court stops massive Willow oil project in western Arctic
We got good news when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted...
17 February, 2021
Willow project poses immediate threat
We went to court in December to stop ConocoPhillips from doing road...
27 January, 2021
Great news for the Arctic Refuge
Right after the Inauguration, President Biden signed an executive order directing the...
27 January, 2021
December 2020 News Brief–A winter reverie with Loki
Sharing the same space really matters. It helps us understand each other...
23 December, 2020
Court action calls for stop to ConocoPhillips’ harmful Willow construction
We filed a motion in U.S. District Court requesting a preliminary injunction...
23 December, 2020
Sprinting to court to stop the Arctic Refuge sell-off
We sprinted to court this week to stop the outgoing administration from...
15 December, 2020
Lame duck administration plans Arctic Refuge lease sale in January
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced today that it will issue...
03 December, 2020
We just sued Interior for illegal, premature approval of massive Arctic oil and gas project
We’re taking the Interior Department, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, and U.S....
18 November, 2020
Alaska News Brief September 2020: A bedrock law in peril
The National Environmental Policy Act, affectionately called NEPA in the alphabet soup...
18 September, 2020
Riding across a Texas ranch taught me that to love land is to protect it
Our office manager Ashley Boyd talks about how ranch life taught her...
16 September, 2020
A rundown on our August lawsuits
Our August lawsuits charge Interior and federal agencies with derailing public input,...
28 August, 2020
Lawsuit calls out illegal plan to sell off the nation’s largest public land
We went to court again—the second time this week--charging the U.S. Bureau...
25 August, 2020
We stand with the Gwich’in in court to protect sacred lands in the Arctic Refuge
The Gwich’in Steering Committee and allied groups took Interior to court today...
24 August, 2020