Earthjustice is heading to court to challenge federal approval of Shell Oil’s plan to drill in the Alaskan Arctic’s Beaufort Sea. After the devastating Deepwater Horizon spill, President Obama delayed plans by Shell Oil to drill in the Arctic Ocean. But this August, the administration reversed course and approved the first part of the most aggressive Arctic drilling proposal in the history of the country by approving Shell’s plan to start drilling in the Beaufort Sea as early as the summer of 2012. Yesterday, Earthjustice initiated litigation in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of Alaska Native and conservation groups challenging the Bureau of Ocean...
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