A vote in the United States Senate in favour of not drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska is an important victory for wildlife and aboriginal peoples in both the United States and ...

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is an important denning location for polar bears and is considered a critical habitat for their survival as a species. In addition to polar bears, a herd of ...

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An oil and gas lease sale to drill on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will be pushed back by one day because of an official day of mourning declared for former President Jimmy Carter ...

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain is seen on July 8, 2019. Bids for the second oil and gas lease sale held in the area are set to be opened by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Environmental groups filed a lawsuit in federal court today challenging the Trump administration’s decision to allow oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The ...

The lease auction for oil and gas drilling in the Coastal Plain of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska has not received any bids from energy companies. The US Interior Department ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday said no bids were submitted for this week's oil and gas lease sale in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a sale the ...

“The lack of interest from oil companies in development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge reflects what we and they have known all along: There are some places too special and sacred to put ...

(Bloomberg) — Oil companies declined to bid in a US government auction for drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as industry interest wanes in a region that’s rich with crude but ...

Sacred Landscapes to Oil Drilling WASHINGTON— The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority emerged as the apparent high bidder in the Trump administration's illegal oil and gas lease sale as ...