Today, the Biden administration announced a suite of actions to protect diverse landscapes across America’s Arctic, recognizing the importance of Alaska’s public lands and waters for communities,...

The decision has broad implications for Mr. Trump’s effort to push drilling across the American coastline and on public lands.

The Interior Department moved to cancel several oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Tuesday, arguing the Trump administration rushed to auction off drilling rights just days...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley teamed up with U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Chris Van Hollen...

Why the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge needs to be protected

A federal judge in Alaska ruled late Wednesday against a Trump administration plan to open 1.8 million acres of America's largest national forest to logging. ​The Forest Service plan targeted part of...

When Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski re-ignited a decades-old push to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, she tried to make the case that science was on her side. Thanks to technological...

The administration suspended leases that were auctioned in the waning days of the Trump White House. But a 2017 law requires another sale.

The Interior Department to launch 60-day review process for oil and gas lease sales in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Republicans have tried for years to open the refuge to exploration.

Public Citizen revealed Monday that President Joe Biden can potentially freeze—and more swiftly reverse—over two dozen more regulatory rollbacks forced through at the last minute by the Trump...

Biden has made progress on climate, even if activists can’t see it.

The Legislature and Alaska's congressional delegation have jointly filed an amicus brief urging the judge not to grant an injunction.

The administration also announced new limits on Arctic drilling in an apparent effort to temper criticism over the $8 billion Willow oil project, which has faced sharp opposition.

As the administration lays out an aggressive climate and conservation agenda, the Forest Service has primed logging projects in carbon-rich forests.

Lobbyists and lawmakers who have enjoyed full careers profiting from oil and gas have — predictably — blamed the Biden administration for current high prices and have called for a full-scale ramping...

Drawing only three bidders and $14 million, the administration's attempt to drill for oil in the massive Alaskan refuge is likely dead on arrival

Designating the Tongass a Forest Carbon Reserve would be a significant step toward ensuring protecting one of the Northern Hemisphere’s largest carbon sinks.

The largest bank in the U.S. will no longer fund drilling in the Arctic, according to its newly released its environmental and social policy framework.

A last-ditch effort to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling is underway.

White House officials last year weighed whether to simply “ignore” the climate findings emerging from federal agencies under President Trump or instead develop “a coherent, fact-based message about...

Retracing a famous environmentalist's journey almost 120 years ago, an author discovers a very different Alaska.

A new rule proposed by the administration would also bar hunters from invading wolf dens to kill pups.

The Swiss bank joins four major U.S. banks that have announced restrictions in Arctic lending in recent weeks.

The Biden administration cleared the way on Wednesday for a controversial Arctic oil project, recommending that drilling proceed in an undeveloped section of the Alaskan tundra. While the Bureau of...