Taking the Willow project to court. Again.
Five days after a U.S. Federal District Court ruling gave ConocoPhillips the...
14 November, 2023
Quick guide to speaking out for the Arctic Refuge and Reserve
Here's a quick guide to help you speak up for the Arctic...
17 October, 2023
Do Interior’s latest actions mean the Arctic is finally protected? Not yet. The devil is in the details.
The Biden administration did several things earlier this month that could lead...
15 September, 2023
Litigation 101: What’s a motion for a preliminary injunction and how did ours play out in our Willow litigation?
Motions can ask the judge to do an array of things, like...
14 April, 2023
BREAKING: Biden administration approves Willow project, locking in massive greenhouse gases for decades
The Biden administration approved the ConocoPhillips’ Willow project today, locking in oil...
13 March, 2023
Litigation 101: What is a supplemental environmental impact statement and why is the one for the ConocoPhillips Willow proposal so dodgy?
By Dawnell Smith Agencies produce environmental impact statements to analyze and assess the...
14 July, 2022
Climate action in the western Arctic
The Biden administration announced in January 2022 that it intends to reverse...
21 January, 2022
An Arctic wish list with 2022 resolve
Our work feels less frantic and chaotic than it did a year...
17 December, 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
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
Biden administration undermines climate promises
The Biden administration confirmed through legal briefs filed in court May 26...
27 May, 2021
Alaska News Brief February 2021: The climate crisis isn’t a surprise
The climate crisis didn't come out of nowhere. Scientists knew as early...
25 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
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
Trump’s plan to wreck the Arctic
Trump agencies have become conveyor belts for moving public lands into industry...
17 July, 2020
Support the Western Arctic now!
Speak up now to keep and expand protected areas in the National...
17 January, 2020
The Western Arctic needs you
Last month the Bureau of Land Management proposed a revised management plan...
11 December, 2019
Another Arctic land grab
The Trump administration continues to put industry interests ahead of public health...
21 November, 2019
Two “under the radar” projects that threaten the Arctic
Two projects - the Ambler road and the Willow oil and gas...
17 October, 2019
Alaska Brief–July
Complicity takes many shapes. It can show up as apathy, distraction, and...
26 July, 2019
The NPRA leasing process is broken
The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska —also known as the Western Arctic—provides rich wildlife...
19 July, 2019
Alaska Brief–January 2019
Federal employees got zero dollars on their paychecks. Air and water quality...
30 January, 2019
Save the Western Arctic
[caption id="attachment_8958" align="alignleft" width="349"] Teshekpuk Lake teems with birds in the spring...
16 January, 2019
Alaska’s largest Arctic lake threatened
[caption id="attachment_8958" align="alignright" width="442"] Brant goose in the Western Arctic. Photo by...
06 December, 2018
The legal waiting game
Trustees and its clients will play the legal waiting game this fall...
24 October, 2018
Trustees argues in court: BLM broke the law
Today Trustee's attorneys presented oral arguments before the U.S. District Court detailing...
21 September, 2018
Alaska Brief Newsletter–September 2018
We don't need Twitter to tell us that the Trump administration couldn't...
18 September, 2018
Peril in the Western Arctic
[caption id="attachment_6554" align="alignright" width="273"] Courtesy Audubon Alaska[/caption] Industry spin causes peril in the...
14 September, 2018
We’re taking the Trump administration to court
Lawsuit challenges Trump administration's Western Arctic lease sale [caption id="attachment_7990" align="alignright" width="300"] Caribou...
02 February, 2018