A federal judge has suspended the lease stemming from a 2022 oil and gas sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet basin after finding problems with the environmental review it was based on. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason ruled Tuesday that the U.S.
FILE - Visitors to Point Woronzof Park watch the sun set over Cook Inlet and Mount Susitna, on June 7, 2013, in Anchorage, Alaska . A federal judge on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, has suspended the lone lease stemming from a 2022 oil and gas lease sale in Alaska ’s Cook Inlet basin after finding problems with the environmental review the sale was based on.
Gleason, who is based in Alaska, declined to vacate the lease sale, as the conservation groups who sued over the sale had requested. Instead, she suspended the lease issued in the sale pending a supplemental environmental review that addresses the issues she identified.
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