Lawsuit filed in bid to halt Alaska oil drilling project
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Environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to halt a controversial oil drilling project in Alaska approved by the Biden administration.
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Green groups sue Biden admin over approval of Alaska Willow oil project
Six environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday over the Biden administration's approval of ConocoPhillips' Willow oil and gas project in Alaska, which they claimed could be a stepping stone to more development in an ecologically sensitive region.
Environmental groups file two lawsuits hoping to stop the Willow Project, citing climate impacts
Environmental and indigenous groups have filed two separate lawsuits challenging the Willow Project on Alaska's North Slope after the Biden administration approved the oil drilling venture on Monday.
Environmental groups file two lawsuits hoping to stop the Willow Project, citing climate impacts
By Ella Nilsen, CNN Environmental and indigenous groups have filed two separate lawsuits challenging the Willow Project on Alaska’s North Slope after the Biden administration approved the oil drilling venture on Monday. ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project is slated to drill oil in the National Petroleum Reserve, which is owned by the federal government. The area where the project is planned holds up to 600 million barrels of oil, though it would take…
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."
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…
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…