Federal appeals judges hear Willow oil project arguments
A federal three-judge panel heard oral arguments on Monday regarding whether the Willow oil project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska should be allowed to be developed.
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A federal three-judge panel heard oral arguments on Monday regarding whether the Willow oil project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska should be allowed to be developed.
"It's not our position that development is not possible," said one lawyer who argued that the Interior Department should have done more to limit the Alaska
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A federal judge in Alaska on Friday rejected requests from environmental groups to halt winter construction work for the massive Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope while the groups’ legal fight over the drilling project wages on.
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