Trump Administration Appeals Ruling Banning Offshore Alaska Oil Drilling

(May 30, 2019, 1:38 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration on May 29 filed a notice of appeal in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals regarding a district court’s ruling that President Donald J. Trump’s executive order that opened areas of the Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of Alaska for oil and gas drilling is “unlawful” because it exceeded the president’s authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) (League of Conservation Voters, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, et al., Nos. 19-35460, 19-35461 and 19-35462, 9th Cir.)....

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