Federal Judge Rejects Trump's Recision Of Offshore Drilling Ban

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ANCHORAGE, AK.-A federal judge has reinstated a drilling ban for millions of acres off the Alaska coast, deeming unlawful President Donald Trump's executive order allowing offshore drilling. In 2015 and 2016, President Barack Obama issued three memoranda and an executive order withdrawing several parts of the Outer Continental Shelf from leasing. President Trump revoked those actions through Executive Order 13795, issued April 28, 2017, the White House says. A week later, several groups, including the Alaska Wilderness League, Defenders of Wildlife, Greenpeace and Natural Resources Defense Council, filed a lawsuit against the executive order. In a March 29 ruling handed down from the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska, U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason ruled the president lacked the authority to rescind the earlier memoranda and executive order, and ordered the withdrawals to "remain in full force and effect unless and until revoked by Congress."