Alaska Sues Biden Administration Over Canceled Arctic Oil, Gas Leases
The Biden administration is being sued by an Alaskan state agency over its decision to cancel oil and gas leases on Alaska’s North Slope. Filed in a federal court in Washington on Oct. 18, the lawsuit challenges the U.S. Interior Department’s Sept. 6 decision to scrap seven oil and gas leases in Alaska’s 19-million-acre (7.7-million-hectare) […]