Judge rules Trump order opening Arctic Ocean to drilling is 'unlawful and invalid'
A federal judge in Alaska has declared that President Donald Trump’s executive order allowing offshore oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean is “unlawful and invalid” because he “exceeded his authority.”
U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason ruled Friday that the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act that determines offshore drilling access only allows a president to withdraw lands from consideration by the Interior Department for leasing — not to revoke a prior withdrawal. Obama withdrew some 125 million acres in the Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic coast from oil leasing in memoranda in 2015 and 2016.
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