Lawsuit filed in bid to halt Alaska oil drilling project

Conservation groups sue to block Biden-approved Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope

An aerial view of one of the exploration pads and wells that ConocoPhillips drilled during the 2018 exploration season at its Willow prospect. (Photo courtesy of Judy Patrick Photography/ConocoPhillips Alaska) Six conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the federal government Tuesday, a day after the Biden administration approved the Willow project — the $8 billion ConocoPhillips oil development located in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alas…

Environmental groups sue Biden over oil drilling project in Alaska

​A group of environmental ​organizations sued the administration on Wednesday to stop ​an oil drilling project ​in Alaska that ​President Biden ​approved this week​, likening the $8 billion venture to a "carbon bomb."​

Lawsuit charges Biden administration with violating multiple laws when approving ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil & gas project in Alaska

Environmental groups sue Biden administration over $8B oil and gas project

Six environmental and Indigenous organizations joined in bringing a lawsuit Tuesday against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the US Department of the Interior over the decision to approve ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil and gas project. The coalition includes Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic, Alaska Wilderness League, Environment America, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Sierra Club and The Wilderne…

Green groups sue to block Willow oil project approved by Interior

FILE - This 2019 aerial photo provided by ConocoPhillips shows an exploratory drilling camp at the proposed site of the Willow oil project on Alaska's North Slope. The Biden administration’s approval of the massive oil development in northern Alaska on Monday, March 13, 2023, commits the U.S. to yet another decadeslong crude project even as scientists urgently warn that only a halt to more fossil fuel emissions can stem climate change. (ConocoPh…

Environmental groups sue over Biden administration approval of Alaska oil drilling project

Two separate coalitions of environmental organizations have sued the Biden administration over its approval of the Willow Project, a controversial oil drilling project in northwestern Alaska. The litigation accuses the administration of insufficiently assessing how the endeavor would affect the surrounding indigenous community and endangered species. Representatives for the nearby village of Nuiqsut made similar…