From the Center for Biological Diversity:
A US federal court has denied the Interior Department's leasing plan for 400,000 acres of land at Teshekpuk Lake in Alaska. Leases to the environmentally sensitive area were to be sold on September 27, but the ruling stated that the plan did not consider the cumulative impact of oil and gas drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska (NPRA).

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