U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason ruled on Friday, March 29, that Trump’s April 2017 executive order revoking the Obama administration’s ban on drilling in most of the Arctic was ” “unlawful, as it exceeded the president’s authority.” The decision, immediately reinstates the drilling ban on most of the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Alaska and on a large swath of the Atlantic coast.
By Coral Davenport, New York Times, March 30, 2019
