January 20, 2026
The state of Alaska has told a federal judge that environmental groups sued too early over a move last year by President Donald Trump to revive the prospect of Arctic oil and gas leasing in offshore areas that prior administrations deemed off-limits.
April 07, 2025
The Trump administration urged an Alaska federal judge not to reinstate a decision barring it from undoing former President Barack Obama's withdrawal of offshore waters from oil and gas leasing, while it fights to revoke additional Biden administration removals.
February 19, 2025
President Donald Trump may have promised to "drill, baby, drill," but should know he can't undo a prior administration's decision to withdraw vast swaths of outer continental shelf from oil and gas leasing, conservation groups told an Alaska federal judge.