Federal Judge Revokes Permits for Major Alaska Oil Project

The entrance to the ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. building is seen in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on April 8, 2020. Yereth Rosen/Reuters

A federal judge said on Aug. 18 that the U.S. government failed to properly conduct environmental reviews for a multibillion-dollar oil project in Alaska and has voided permits issued for the drilling.

Work on ConocoPhillips’s Willow oil project, which could produce up to 160,000 barrels of oil per day if carried out, was halted because of the judge’s order to redo the reviews.