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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the attorney general’s office does not have authority under the consumer protection law to sue natural gas exploration firms over their leasing practices. The Pennsylvania Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law (UTPCPL) declares unlawful “unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday upheld a district judge’s order for an environmental impact review of the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL). However, the court declined to shut the line down while the review is completed. The DAPL transports crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois. The pipeline [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled Friday that it has jurisdiction to intervene in a historic boundary dispute between Venezuela and Guyana. Venezuela refused to participate in the hearing but submitted 200 pages of evidence in its defense. In the 1890s, when Guyana was still a British colony, the UK and Venezuela both claimed certain [...]

Environmental and Alaska Native groups on Tuesday requested the blocking of an auction of oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and “a court order barring permits sought for seismic operations.” The plaintiff groups include the National Audubon Society, the Gwich’in Steering Committee and the Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government, among [...]

The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced Thursday that it would soon open for sale oil and gas leases of land in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The Republican-controlled Congress passed and President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, which opened portions of ANWR to [...]

The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) denied a permit for the Pebble Mine in Alaska on Wednesday, a proposed open-pit copper and gold mine that would sit at the headwaters of the Bristol Bay watershed, the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery. The announcement marks the likely conclusion of a decades-long battle between Alaskan Native [...]

The Trump administration on Monday announced formal proceedings to sell oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil companies. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Alaska State Office issued a call for nominations and comments on several lease tracts considered for the upcoming Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Lease Sale, approximately [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia has barred drilling for the second time in two years on over 300,000 acres of federal land in Wyoming because the government failed to sufficiently consider the drilling’s impacts on climate change. Two environmental nonprofit organizations, WildEarth Guardians and Physicians for Social Responsibility, sued [...]

In October 2001, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to avenge the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and remove the Taliban government that had harbored the attacks’ mastermind, Osama bin Laden. Since then, the Taliban have been fighting the U.S. to free their homeland from occupation. For nearly 20 years, the U.S. narrative of “national [...]

The Israeli Cabinet unanimously approved a peace agreement with the United Arab Emirates on Monday—the first peace agreement that Israel has signed in more than 25 years. Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained that the agreement will open the door to trade between Israel and its neighbors, leading to a major geopolitical and economic turning [...]