Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry Court finds determination on tug noise arbitrary and capricious Kristen Nelson Petroleum News In a March 30 decision U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service mitigation and monitoring measures for seismic surveying in Cook Inlet but found arbitrary and capricious the agencys determination that noise from tugs towing a drilling rig would not cause ta.... [additional news subjects in this story] Hilcorps application