With Arctic refuge drilling approved, focus shifts to legal battles and market forces
Oil exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will now depend on the outcome of lawsuits — and whether any company is interested in drilling there.
With the Trump administration poised for an oil lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, drilling opponents and supporters are girding for a legal fight that might upend that plan. Meanwhile shifting market forces are causing uncertainty about how appealing those leases might be to oil companies.
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