ConocoPhillips sues Biden administration over Alaska drilling restrictions

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Alaska’s largest oil company has filed a lawsuit against the Department of the Interior, asking a judge to toss out new rules imposed by the Biden administration that they say «thwart and prevent the production of petroleum» across millions of acres of an Alaskan reserve. 

The recent filing from ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. in U.S. District Court comes months after the regulations surrounding the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) were set in place by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The federal agency describes the reserve as a «vast, approximately 23-million-acre area on Alaska's North Slope» that was set aside by President Harding in 1923 as an «emergency oil supply for the U.S. Navy» before its administration was transferred into BLM's hands about five decades later. 

ConocoPhillips’ is arguing in the lawsuit that «BLM issued final regulations that drastically and fundamentally change the priorities, substantive standards, and processes for management and administration of the Petroleum Reserve.» 

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«In promulgating the Rules, BLM has attempted to override and evade clear Congressional mandates, changing the management priority for the Petroleum Reserve from expeditious leasing and production to meet the Nation’s energy needs to creating ‘maximum protection’ of surface values and prohibiting development activities,» the lawsuit says. «BLM ignored Congress’ direction and made a unilateral policy choice that 13 million acres of the Petroleum Reserve are ‘too special to develop’ for oil and gas and should instead be