Alaska Sues Biden Administration Over Canceled Arctic Oil, Gas Leases

A part of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Sept. 17, 2019. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The Biden administration is being sued by an Alaskan state agency over its decision to cancel oil and gas leases on Alaska’s North Slope.

Filed in a federal court in Washington on Oct. 18, the lawsuit challenges the U.S. Interior Department’s Sept. 6 decision to scrap seven oil and gas leases in Alaska’s 19 million-acre (7.7-million-hectare) Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.