Campaigners are calling for a fundamental overhaul of World Bank lending to financial markets actors, following the publication of an Ombudsman audit.

Letter signed by 13 international NGOs urging significant action to reduce emissions of black carbon.

ANCHORAGE, AK – In a letter sent to Interior’s Acting Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Tommy Beaudreau today, thirteen conservation groups ask that a review of Shell’s 2012-2013 Arctic drilling examine the entire system of Arctic Ocean drilling.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today CEOs from Alaska Wilderness League, Center for Biological Diversity, Clean Water Action, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice, Environment America, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, League of Conservation Voters, National Audubon Society, National Parks Conservation Association, Natural Resources Defense Council, Oceana, Ocean Conservancy, Pacific Environment, Sierra Club and The Wilderness Society called on Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to suspend offshore oil and gas activities in the Arctic Ocean.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s nearly $3 billion in financing for a massive Australian fossil fuel facility in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.

DOHA, QATAR — The Obama Administration is supporting skyrocketing export subsidies for dirty fossil fuels through the United States Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank).

WASHINGTON, DC - Three conservation groups initiated a legal challenge today to the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s nearly $3 billion in financing for two massive fossil-fuel facilities in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

LONDON, UK - Today, residents living adjacent to a highly polluting liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) plant and oil and gas export terminals on Sakhalin Island, Russia, filed a complaint against Royal Dutch Shell and three of the largest UK banks for their failure to adhere to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (“OECD”) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (“Guidelines”).

ANCHORAGE, AK - In a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency sent today, a coalition of conservation organizations asked the agency to uphold the requirements of the Clean Air Act and refuse Shell Oil’s request for a waiver that would allow the company exceed air pollution limits in the Arctic.

ANCHORAGE, AK -“We have been forced into court to make sure the Arctic Ocean is protected and Shell is prepared, as mandated by law. The Federal Government rubber-stamped plans that rely on unbelievable assumptions, include equipment that has never been tested in Arctic conditions, and ignore the very real possibility that a spill could continue through the winter.

WASHINGTON, DC - The Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank), a federal government trade promotion agency, voted to provide $90 million in financing to the top U.S. coal exporter, Xcoal Energy & Resources, to export coal to China and other Asian countries.

ANCHORAGE, AK – A day after more than 1 million people urged President Barack Obama to reject plans to drill in the Arctic Ocean this summer, a coalition of groups today filed a lawsuit in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s air pollution discharge permit for Shell’s Kulluk offshore drilling unit and associated fleet of vessels for use in the Beaufort Sea.

WASHINGTON, DC - Today the U.S. Senate passed H.R. 2072, a bill to reauthorize the federal government’s Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank), which provides billions of dollars in public financing for harmful fossil fuel projects worldwide.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - After determining that the existing electricity supply can meet the state’s system needs through the year 2020, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) voted unanimously today to defer any new procurement of fossil fuel generation.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The Pacific Ocean encompasses some of the most unique marine ecosystems in the world, providing habitat for many endangered and threatened species.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Pacific Environment is pleased to announce that Caroline Cannon will receive the Goldman Environmental Prize this evening in San Francisco.

ANCHORAGE, AK – A coalition of groups filed an appeal today in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the approval of Lease Sale 193, which opened for oil drilling the remote Chukchi Sea, home to iconic species such as polar bear, bowhead whale, and walrus and to a vibrant indigenous subsistence culture.

LONDON, U.K. – The polar waters of the Arctic and Antarctic are in jeopardy as a result of substantial delays to the development of environmental protection rules which will reduce the impact of shipping on these delicate regions.

San Francisco, CA — Pacific Environment's "Save America’s Arctic Seas" campaign was honored with a Business Ethics Network’s 2011 BENNY Award, which recognizes some of the most brilliant corporate campaigns for their contributions to the advancement of corporate ethics.

ANCHORAGE, AK - "The Obama administration's decision to affirm Chukchi Lease Sale 193 in America's Arctic Ocean is a clear case of politics trumping science.

ANCHORAGE, AK - A coalition of Alaska Native and conservation groups head to court today to challenge the Obama administration's decision to allow offshore oil drilling by Shell Oil in the Beaufort Sea in America's Arctic Ocean.

ANCHORAGE, AK - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued air permits authorizing the Shell oil company to drill for oil and gas in America's Arctic Ocean as early as 2012.

SACRAMENTO, CA - Legislation to prevent catastrophic oil spills just passed the California legislature this week and is headed to Governor Brown's desk.

ANCHORAGE, AK - The U.S. Department of the Interior took a dangerous and disappointing leap towards drilling in the remote and fragile waters of America's Arctic Ocean today.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Conservation groups filed a legal petition today seeking a mandatory speed limit for large ships traveling through California’s marine sanctuaries.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Pacific Environment has named Alex Levinson as our new Executive Director.

WASHINGTON, DC - Today the Board of Directors of the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) voted to approve $805 million dollars in subsidized financing for one of the world’s largest coal fired power plants, the 4,800 Megawatt Kusile project, in South Africa.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Pacific Environment is pleased to announce that Dmitry Lisitsyn has been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize – one of the most prestigious environmental awards in the world.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — An international coalition of NGOs for the protection of transboundary rivers, Rivers without Boundaries, has presented evidence of undisclosed environmental risks to investors in advance of EuroSibEnergo’s IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange.

SAN FRANCISCO—After seven years as Executive Director of Pacific Environment, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization, David Gordon has accepted the position of Senior Program Officer for Environmental Programs at the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation in Minnesota.

ANCHORAGE, AK – Pacific Environment, an international environmental NGO focused on protecting the living environment of the Pacific Rim, will travel to Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Russia next week, March 7-16, with a group of indigenous leaders from the Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope, as part of a cultural and informational exchange to strengthen ties between these communities in an effort to foster supportive relationships across the Arctic and identify opportunities for collaboration.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Legislation aimed at curbing the harvesting of shark fins was introduced today in the California State Assembly. Assembly Bill 376 (AB376), sponsored by California Assemblymen Fong and Huffman calls for a ban on the possession, sale, trade and distribution of shark fins.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Back in October, a team of Russian and American scientists successfully tagged a critically endangered Western Pacific Gray Whale – an adult male known as “Flex” – and have been tracking his surprising journey via satellite telemetry

ANCHORAGE, AK – Peter Voser, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, today announced that the oil giant has abandoned plans for exploratory drilling in Alaska's Beaufort Sea in 2011.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - For the first time ever scientists are able to learn more about the seasonal migration of one of the world’s most endangered whales—the western Pacific gray whale.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A Siberian woman, fighting to protect the world’s oldest freshwater lake from industrial pollution, has been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize – the world’s biggest prize for environmental activists.