Court Blocks Alaska Drilling Plan, Citing NEPA Ruling On Oil-Export GHGs

A federal district court has vacated the Interior Department’s (DOI) environmental review of a major Alaska oil drilling project, one of the first such rulings to cite a landmark 2020 appellate decision that found officials ignored greenhouse gases from exported oil tied to the project. In an Aug. 18 order , Judge Sharon Gleason of the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska concludes that Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials made multiple “serious” errors in their 2020 National...