Environmental

Groups Appeal Arctic Oil Drilling Decision in Chukchi Sea

Lease Sale 193 approval flawed by missing science on impacts
Anchorage, AK–(ENEWSPF)–April 12, 2012.  A coalition of groups filed an appeal today in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the approval of Lease Sale 193, which opened for oil drilling the remote Chukchi Sea, home to iconic species such as polar bear, bowhead whale, and walrus and to a vibrant indigenous subsistence culture.
There are widely recognized gaps in what we know about nearly every species in the Chukchi Sea, including beluga whales. Chukchi Sea / Alaska. (Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com)
There are widely recognized gaps in what we know about nearly…

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