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Lawsuits challenge renewed push for oil drilling in Alaska petroleum reserve and upcoming lease sale
Plaintiffs argue the lease sale threatens protected wildlife habitats and subsistence areas, with 80% of the reserve now open for development under a recent federal plan.
- On Tuesday, conservation organizations and Grandmothers Growing Goodness, an Iñupiat-affiliated advocacy group, filed lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's March 18 lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska on Alaska's North Slope.
- A law passed by Congress last year calls for at least five lease sales over 10 years, prompting lawsuits challenging the upcoming sale and policy.
- Next month's planned lease sale includes tracts near Teshekpuk Lake Special Area and Colville River Special Area, and plaintiffs say Bureau of Land Management gave no rationale for including these lands in the management plan.
- Both lawsuits name the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, and top officials as defendants, with one suit seeking to void a Biden-era right-of-way protecting the Teshekpuk caribou herd across roughly 1 million acres.
- There are differing views among Alaska Natives about development, with some North Slope leaders backing drilling while others warn projects could harm subsistence activities and communities.
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Lawsuits challenge renewed push for oil drilling in Alaska petroleum reserve and upcoming lease sale
Conservation organizations and an Iñupiat group have filed legal challenges to the Trump administration’s renewed push for oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and an upcoming lease sale.
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Two lawsuits challenge Trump administration’s plans for oil drilling in Alaska petroleum reserve
Teshekpuk Caribou Herd animals graze in June of 2014 in the northeastern part of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. (Photo by Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management)A newly filed lawsuit and a revived six-year-old case from environmental groups and an Alaska Native organization are challenging the Trump administration’s proposal to open more parts of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and gas drilling. On Tuesday, Grandmothers Growi…
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