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August 25, 2020

2 lawsuits challenge Trump's drilling plan in Alaska refuge

By MARK THIESSEN
Associated Press

ANCHORAGE — Environmental groups wasted no time challenging the Trump administration's attempt to allow oil and gas drilling in an Alaska refuge where polar bears and caribou roam.

Two lawsuits filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage sought to block the Interior Department's plan to allow oil and gas lease sales on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a 1.56 million-acre strip of land along Alaska's northern Beaufort Sea coast, or about 8% of the 19.3 million-acre refuge.


 
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