Alaska is accusing the Interior Department of illegally treating an oil and gas lease like a license in an amended complaint the state filed Tuesday in its challenge to the agency’s cancellation of the state’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas leases.
The Interior Department in 2023 canceled seven oil and gas leases the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority purchased during the Trump administration within the refuge. The department said the leases were sold illegally, and it’s urgent to cancel them because of their expected contributions to climate change.
The sale was mandated by Congress in the 2017 ...
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