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The Interior Department finalized a rule limiting future oil and gas development across 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

Commentary author Doreen Leavitt writes of the North Slope Borough: "Many of our elected leaders have been denied a spot at the table."

Santos undertook its first drilling operations for Pikka Phase 1 in June with the powerful Parker 272 rig. In the months that followed it completed five wells, is on the sixth now, and is about to move to the seventh. (See slides in the online issue PDF) The company is focused on its Pikka Phase 1...

The state’s North Slope communities need rocks, and they’re hard to come by.

As ConocoPhillips begins a major winter construction season for its planned Willow oil development, the governments of a North Slope village that were among the few local institutions to criticize the project have both changed their positions, according to newly released documents.

Nuiqsut's tribal and city councils last year blasted the “endless expansion of oil development and the complete encirclement of our village."

The Arctic is a hemispheric sink collecting plastic pollution from all corners of the world and is melting four times faster than the rest of the world.

ConocoPhillips may continue winter construction at the Willow oil field project on the North Slope after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an injunction request by environmental and Alaska

The move is another loss for conservation groups and an Inupiat organization that are seeking to stop the project.

Construction is underway at the massive oil project even as the legal fight continues.