An Alaska state agency on Wednesday sued the Biden administration over its decision to cancel oil and gas leases in the state’s North Slope, one of the country's largest reserves of pristine federal land.
The lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., challenges the U.S. Interior Department’s Sept. 6seven oil and gas leases in Alaska’s 19 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an area that is acutely vulnerable to climate change and home to grizzly and polar bears, herds of moose and snowy owls.
"The federal government is determined to strip away Alaska’s ability to support itself, and we have got to stop it,” said Republican Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy in a statement.The canceled leases were sold during the waning days of the Trump administration following a decades-long effort by Alaska officials to open up drilling in the refuge and bolster the state's petroleum-reliant economy.
Though the refuge's coastal plain is estimated to contain up to 11.8 billion barrels of oil, it has no roads, established trails or other infrastructure.
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