Bid to pause ConocoPhillips’ Alaska Willow project fails

Initial construction can proceed while legal challenges make their way through the courts, Judge Sharon Gleason ruled.

By Clark Mindock, Reuters April 4, 2023
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A federal judge on Monday rejected a bid by environmentalists to temporarily suspend the U.S. government’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ multibillion-dollar oil drilling project in Alaska’s Arctic.

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