As Shell 'Pauses,' Environmentalists Sue EPA Over Arctic Drilling Permits

摘要

Several environmental and other groups have filed anticipated lawsuits challenging EPA's general discharge permits for oil and gas exploration activities in Arctic waters, even as oil giant Shell, one of the companies seeking to drill in the area, announced that it was "pausing" its exploration and production activities in 2013. Over the past few days, lawyers representing the Alaska Whaling Commission and environmental groups have filed separate petitions asking the U.S.