Eiders can do a happy dance—Shell canceled its Arctic Ocean 2014 drilling plans today! After $1.1 million in Clean Air Act violations, sea ice delays (ice in the Arctic Ocean? Shocking!), a drill rig running aground in 2012, and last week’s court decision that federal offshore oil lease sales were based on “improper information” and violated the law, Shell backed away from its plans to push forward.

Spectacled Eider photo by Laura Whitehouse, US Fish & Wildlife Service)