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…
