U.S. Says Plan to Expand Alaska Oil Drilling Should Proceed

The Bush administration said a Sept. 27 sale of oil drilling leases in Alaska should go forward and rejected a court’s objections that environmental effects have not been properly addressed.



The U.S. Interior Department said in a court filing yesterday that the impact of expanded drilling on air, water, wetlands and wildlife had been properly considered in the plan to expand drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve.

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