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 o
After decades of calls to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, we finally have an opportunity to help gain permanent wilderness protection for the refuge. For the first time ever, the U.S.
The Wilderness Society has joined a coalition of Alaska Native and conservation groups in a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s decision to allow Shell to begin offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean next summer.
The Wilderness Society continues to sound the warning that Shell lacks the ability to adequately respond to an offshore oil spill in remote, stormy seas that are covered in ice much of the year.
Shell's ongoing oil spill battle in the North Sea is disturbing, but it is made even more disturbing given that Shell recently received conditional approval to move forward with dangerous drilling plans in Alaska's Arctic waters next summer.
This year your support helped pull 44,700 acres of western Wyoming’s beautiful Bridger-Teton National Forest lands off the oil and gas chopping block, but now we must report to you that our victory is being threatened — and could even be reversed — by the powerful oil and gas i
This map breaks down Alaska's North Slope by sold, deferred, active, and potential leases, as well as Barrow Native Lands and Arctic Slope Regional Corporation Surface and Subsurface Lands.
The Wilderness Society President Bill Meadows comments on the role of natural gas in our energy policy - and the need, above all, to make sure that any energy energy development is "done right"
