February 05, 2024
The Bureau of Land Management should have looked before it leaped in reapproving ConocoPhillips' planned Willow drilling project in Arctic Alaska, the Center for Biological Diversity said Monday, arguing that the agency refused to evaluate the effects of any alternative plans that stranded economically viable oil on the company's land leases.
December 04, 2023
An Alaska federal judge is allowing ConocoPhillips to resume work on its controversial Willow oil and gas project this winter, rejecting conservation groups' attempt to put it on hold as they appeal a ruling upholding the federal approvals for the Arctic energy development.
November 30, 2023
Alaska and other backers of the Willow oil project are urging a federal judge to let ConocoPhillips proceed with more construction work this winter and not block it as conservation groups have requested while they appeal an order affirming the Biden administration's approval of the project.
November 16, 2023
A coalition of conservation groups is asking a federal district court for an injunction to block ConocoPhillips Alaska from beginning construction activity on its planned Willow drilling project while the coalition appeals the project's approval to the Ninth Circuit.
November 09, 2023
Conservation groups can't block ConocoPhillips from moving forward with its planned Willow drilling project in Arctic Alaska, an Anchorage federal judge ruled Thursday, rejecting the groups' arguments that federal approval of the project failed to fully consider the enormous environmental consequences.
September 19, 2023
Conservation groups challenging ConocoPhillips' planned Willow drilling project in Arctic Alaska have repeated their arguments against federal approvals for the development and claimed supporters are trying to distract from regulators' multiple failures to fully consider the development's enormous environmental consequences.
August 31, 2023
ConocoPhillips and supporters of its Willow project told an Alaska federal judge there's no reason for conservation groups to succeed in their attempts to overturn Bureau of Land Management approvals for the massive arctic oil and gas development.
August 24, 2023
The Bureau of Land Management is asking an Alaska federal judge to uphold its approvals for the Willow oil and gas project and to throw out conservation groups' challenges, arguing that while its original authorization for the ConocoPhillips drilling venture was found to be faulty, those shortcomings have all been addressed.
July 21, 2023
From climate change torts to fights over greenhouse gas emissions policymaking, federal and state courts will provide plenty of compelling theater for the energy industry in the second half of 2023. Here's a look into the litigation that energy attorneys will be watching closely in the second half of the year.
April 04, 2023
An Alaska federal judge refused to block ConocoPhillips from starting construction on its massive oil and gas complex in the Arctic on Tuesday, hours after opponents of the project sought a two-week pause while they ask the Ninth Circuit to shut down road building and gravel mining at the site.