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“Drilling for Highways” is a Wrong Turn for Highways and Public Lands

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Lincoln Else

February 9, 2012 - America needs its roads and bridges – without them, we couldn’t get to work, ship goods, and get to the wild places where we love to go hiking, biking, and camping.  But we also need to get away from climate-change causing fossil fuels – not make ourselves more dependent on them.  This is the lesson that the House Republicans don’t seem to learn.  They’re now trying to make a mess of a bill meant to rebuild our bridges and roads by forcing the addition of several drilling bills into the final legislation. more

The Numbers Don’t Lie – BLM lease sales undercut industry claims

Gas well in Wyoming

Credit: BLM

January 12, 2012 - To hear the oil and gas industry tell it, we just aren’t drilling enough. more

Offshore drilling in the Arctic: The deadline to oppose new leases is tonight!

Already stressed by climate change, polar bears are one of the Arctic species that would be threatened by an offshore oil spill.

Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

January 9, 2012 - Despite a glaring lack of scientific information about the Arctic Ocean, or effective technology to address a major oil spill, the Obama administration is following the previous administration’s lead and positioning itself to expand offshore oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Beaufort and Chukchi seas over the next five years in its 2012-2017 drilling plan. Region:  Alaska more

Interior Department releases plan for prioritizing applications pending final solar energy plan

December 5, 2011 - more