Stop Commercial Leasing for Outer Continental Shelf Minerals Offshore

The groups on this fight

4 groups predicted likely to care in Alaska

Predicted likely to care is a guess from footprint in Alaska, by the same match the STAND matchmaker runs, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

• Alaska Wilderness League

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Alaska: built around defending the Arctic Refuge from oil and gas drilling.

• Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Alaska: lead plaintiff in the November 2025 federal suit challenging the land exchange signed to put a road through the Izembek Wilderness.

• Northern Alaska Environmental Center

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Alaska: first-named plaintiff in Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Trump, the Ambler road suit filed in 2020.

• Southeast Alaska Conservation Council

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Alaska: southeast Alaska’s homegrown defender of the Tongass since 1970.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

BOEM's issuing a request for information and interest (RFI) as the first step toward potentially leasing Outer Continental Shelf minerals offshore Alaska. It's not a final leasing decision, but it's soliciting public comments, industry interest, and data to help determine whether to move forward with a formal lease sale process. Conservation professionals, Alaska Native communities, coastal managers, and anyone with stakes in Alaska's offshore ecosystems should pay close attention and submit comments.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is initiating the first steps that could potentially lead to a lease sale for minerals on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore Alaska by publishing this request for information and interest (RFI). This RFI is not a final decision to lease and does not prejudge any future Secretarial decisions concerning leasing on the OCS offshore Alaska. This RFI requests information and comments on, and indications of interest in, the leasing of OCS minerals in an area offshore Alaska, referred to as the RFI Area, with details in Section 5 "Description of the RFI Area." BOEM wi…

Federal Register 2026-01808 ↗

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