‘Nothing stopping them’: Environmental groups battle Trump administration and Alaska over federal land transfer

‘Nothing stopping them’: Environmental groups battle Trump administration and Alaska over federal land transfer

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CN) — The fate of roughly 2 million acres of formerly protected federal land will be decided by a federal court case the state is asking a judge to dismiss. The dispute concerns vast stretches of land alongside the Dalton Highway and Trans-Alaska Pipeline System that have been under Bureau of Land Management control and federally protected from development since 1972. In February, U.S. Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum revoked…