This ruling affects a lease sale held in December 2022 of offshore tracts for oil and gas development in the Cook Inlet in the northern Gulf of Alaska that had been mandated as part of a ...

National and community-based environmental groups celebrated a legal victory on Tuesday when a federal district court judge overturned an offshore oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet because ...

Alaska outraged at federal oil lease sale setup being 'fitting finale' for fossil fuel-averse presidency Gov. Dunleavy said historians will scratch their heads at Biden's goals in Alaska.

Offshore oil platforms in Cook Inlet. (Loren Holmes / ADN) A federal judge on Tuesday overturned a 2022 lease sale held in Cook Inlet’s federal waters southwest of Anchorage.

The sale, which was required by Congress, marks the second time in four years that an effort to auction oil and gas leases in the pristine wilderness — home to migrating caribou, polar bears ...

Judge suspends Alaska oil sale over ... ordered the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in her Tuesday ruling to do a supplemental analysis on how the 2022 lease sale of roughly 1 million acres ...

A mandatory lease sale for oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic Refuge received no bids, highlighting industry disinterest and potential environmental protection.

Oil companies, state agencies, and others faced a deadline to submit their bids in the auction on Jan. 6. The sale was congressionally required through the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

This ruling affects a lease sale held in December 2022 of offshore tracts for oil and gas development in the Cook Inlet in the northern Gulf of Alaska that had been mandated as part of a ...

The state of Alaska on Monday sued the Biden administration over the size of the lease area, saying it made the area economically unviable for oil drilling. If Alaska is successful in its lawsuit ...