Drilling off Alaska can't proceed without further environmental review - Los Angeles Times

An appeals panel rules that the Interior Department didn't adequately analyze a Bush administration plan to auction off leases in the Arctic seas.

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Reporting from Washington and Nuiqsut, Alaska -- A federal appeals court dealt a blow Friday to oil and gas industry efforts to allow drilling in the fertile energy-producing regions in the icy seas north of Alaska. FOR THE RECORD: Arctic drilling: An A Section article Saturday about a federal court ruling that blocked oil leases off the Alaska coast identified Michael LeVine as an Ocean Conservancy lawyer. LeVine is a lawyer with the environmental group Oceana.

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