Alaska Sues Biden Administration Over Restricted Oil Drilling

Alaska is suing the U.S. Administration over the decision of the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to restrict access to drilling and mining in a large part of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A). “The new rules were passed without proper input from affected parties, exceeded their congressional authorization and were rushed into place as an end-run on congressional oversight,” the state of Alaska said in a statement announcing the lawsuit it had initiated. Earlier this year, the Biden…