July 31, 2019
Stories tagged "drilling"
April 11, 2019
Norway to End Arctic Oil and Gas Drilling
In a decision that caught oil and gas industry executives by surprise, the largest governing party in Norway announced it is withdrawing its support for fossil fuel exploration in the Arctic ocean near the sensitive Lofoten Islands, thereby effectively putting them...April 1, 2019
Judge Tosses Trump Plan To Drill Offshore In Alaska
A federal judge in Alaska dealt a major blow late Friday to the Trump Administration’s plan to allow drilling for oil and gas in the ocean waters off the North Slope of Alaska and in deep-sea canyons in the Atlantic Ocean. President Obama used his statutory...March 21, 2019
A Judge in Wyoming Shuts Down Trump Oil and Gas Drilling Plan
A federal judge late Tuesday halted the further development of oil and gas drilling leases from 2015 and 2016 on some 300,000 acres of federal lands in Wyoming because of the Trump Administration’s failure to take climate change into account in its review of the...March 9, 2019
Right Whales Are The Right Whale to Save – Just Ask Vineyard Wind
By Monica Medina There are fewer than 415 North Atlantic Right Whales remaining, with only 100 females of breeding age left in the population. This is one of the most endangered species on the planet, thanks to man-made threats like ship strikes and entanglement in...February 22, 2019
Environmental Groups Seek To Block Seismic Testing in the Atlantic
As part of their challenge to bar the government from drilling for oil and gas off the southeastern coast, a coalition of environmental groups asked a federal judge in South Carolina to force the government to suspend seismic airgun blast testing, which are used to...February 21, 2019
Drill Baby Drill In the Everglades
The Florida Everglades may soon be the site of new oil and gas drilling operations. A Miami real estate developer has, after a four-year legal battle, received a permit to drill an exploratory oil well in the Everglades, just west of populous Broward County suburbs. ...February 12, 2019
Protests Against Drilling in ANWR Dominate Public Meeting
Last week, the Interior Department held a public meeting in Fairbanks to hear their comments and concerns about plans to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. The agency brought scientists who were there to explain the environmental impact...February 2, 2019
50 years after Santa Barbara oil spill, the call remains: ‘Get oil out’
Special to ODP from David Helvarg, first published in the San Francisco Chronicle, January 25, 2019 Fifty years after a California oil spill launched the modern environmental movement, we may finally be moving beyond the age of oil, and none too soon. In October, the...May 25, 2018