Mealey's (March 4, 2020, 7:57 AM EST) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal judge in Alaska on Jan. 10 denied residents of the Native village of Nuiqsut’s request for relief from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to allow oil and gas exploration drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve (NPR), concluding that the BLM’s environmental assessment authorizing the operation was valid (Nuiqsut, et al. v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, et al., No. 19-56, D. Alaska, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3302)....