Court Rules 2008 Chukchi Sea Oil Lease Sale Based on Inadequate Information

A federal appeals court ruled that DOE’s 2008 oil lease sale offshore Alaska was based on a flawed production estimate. On January 22, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Department of Interior’s (DOI) 2008 lease sale (Lease Sale 193) for oil and gas development in the Chukchi Sea…