Politics
Blue States Sue to Stop Trump’s Arctic Refuge Drilling Plan
- Plan ignores negative impacts on wildlife, states argue
- Environmental groups, Alaska Natives previously sued
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A group of 15 Democratic state attorneys general sued to block the Trump administration’s decision to sell drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, alleging the plan fails to account for the danger to wildlife and climate-change impacts.
The plan to open drilling in the 1.56 million-acre coastal plain ignores impacts on polar bears, caribou and the region’s other wildlife, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a complaint filed in Alaska federal court Wednesday.