Washington and other Democratic-led states drop lawsuit against Arctic refuge oil drilling in Alaska

Fifteen Democratic-led states have dropped a six-year-old lawsuit challenging the legality of a federal plan that allowed oil and gas drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife ...
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Gwich’in fight to protect caribou from Alaska oil development

The Bureau of Land Management opened nominations last week for the first-ever oil and gas lease auction in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, setting the stage for development that ...