A new lawsuit over Arctic refuge oil cites transboundary environmental effects

Several Lower 48 states have sued to halt exploration in ANWR, citing climate change and other environmental impacts that would affect them.

By Yereth Rosen September 11, 2020
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Washington state, Massachusetts, California and several other Lower 48 states may be thousands of miles to the south, but they will suffer negative environmental impacts from oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a new lawsuit argues.

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