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Western Arctic

Conservation Lands Foundation Applauds Administration for Progress on Protecting Western Arctic Lands and Waterways

Conservation Lands Foundation

April 19, 2024

Interior Department Puts Biden Administration’s Climate Goals At Risk

Environmental Impact Report for ConocoPhillips’ Western Arctic Project Ignores Pollution and Local Community Impacts Today the Interior Department released a final supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) for ConocoPhillips’ proposed Willow...

Danielle Murray

February 01, 2023

Conservation Lands Foundation Applauds Federal Decision to Reverse Course on Western Arctic Management

January 10, 2022 Washington, D.C.– Today’s action by the Bureau of Land Management to restore needed protections in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve was applauded by Conservation Lands Foundation, a plaintiff...

Conservation Lands Foundation

January 10, 2022

New Trump management plan hands more than 80% of America’s Western Arctic over to oil and gas

Joint Statement from the Alaska Wilderness League, Audubon Alaska, Conservation Lands Foundation, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice, National Audubon Society, Northern Alaska Environmental Center & Trustees for Alaska.

Conservation Lands Foundation

January 04, 2021

Groups sue Trump agency for illegal plan to expand leasing, drilling in the Western Arctic

Lawsuit charges BLM with violating NEPA, other laws in plan to hand public land to fossil fuel industry

Trustees For Alaska

August 25, 2020

Alaska at center of Trump administration’s drive to drill public lands during pandemic

CLF Board of Trustee Jim Kenna calls out the Administration for ignoring the conservation mission of the Interior Department: "Oil and gas leasing now in the midst of a pandemic oil glut makes no sense and flies in the face of public interest."

ABC News

July 09, 2020

Joint Press Statement: Bureau of Land Management Continues Attack on Arctic Alaska

Revised plan gives more public land to oil and gas companies at expense of public health

Conservation Lands Foundation

June 25, 2020

Congressman Lowenthal Calls On Interior To Protect Western Arctic

Congressman Alan Lowenthal has led 47 House Members in calling on the U.S. Interior Department to maintain vital wilderness protections in the Western Arctic. These protections are critical to ensuring the...

Conservation Lands Foundation

January 23, 2020

Interior Announces Attack on America's Western Arctic

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Nov. 21, 2019)—Tomorrow, the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management will release a new draft plan that undercuts protections for designated Special Areas including the Teshekpuk Lake...

Brian Sybert

November 21, 2019

Leadership for protecting important public lands in Alaska’s Western Arctic

The Conservation Lands Foundation worked hard to ensure that the Obama administration moved forward with the strongest management plan possible for the 23-million acre National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska—the largest...

Conservation Lands Foundation

December 19, 2012

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