Judge Upholds Alaska Oil-Lease Sale
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - A federal judge has upheld  the Bush administration's plans to allow oil drilling  throughout a large section of federal land on Alaska's North  Slope, rejecting arguments by environmental groups that  unfettered oil development would harm the region.
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A Russian court yesterday rejected the Yukos oil company's appeal to suspend government efforts to collect $3.4 billion in back taxes -- a massive bill that has put Russia's largest oil producer on the verge of ruin.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered the state to rewrite, reprint and redistribute all of its ballots for the Nov. 2 election, saying the wording of a ballot initiative was inaccurate and biased...
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A U.S. district court judge on Saturday  upheld a bankruptcy court order temporarily blocking Russian  gas monopoly Gazprom from bidding in the auction of Russian oil  giant YUKOS' main production subsidiary.
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the government's cutoff of fuel and electricity to the Gaza Strip, a court spokeswoman said.
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A U.S. federal appeals court  has ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) to suspend oil  exploration operations in the Beaufort Sea off the north coast  of Alaska pending a legal challenge being brought by  environmental activists and Alaska native groups.
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A judge dismissed a Canadian energy company from a lawsuit that alleged it aided genocide in its pursuit of oil in Sudan, saying Tuesday the plaintiffs had failed to find evidence against it that could be used in a U.S. court.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 17 -- Russia pledged Friday to  ignore a U.S. court ban on the looming auction of oil giant Yukos' key production unit, while a consortium of Western banks reportedly put on hold billions of dollars in credit for the state-run Russian gas company that was expected to buy the unit.
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A federal judge on Thursday upheld an Arizona law that prohibits businesses from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and yanks the business licenses of those that do.
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A federal judge has upheld the government's practice of allowing development to proceed even if it is discovered after a project begins that the work could endanger protected species.
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A Russian judge says a jailed former Yukos oil company boss cannot be transferred to a clinic.
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A Houston oil trader with a minor role in the United Nations' oil-for-food scandal will not go to prison after admitting wrongdoing, a judge said Thursday.
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A federal judge Monday dealt Gov. Kathleen Blanco a defeat in her campaign to force the government to give Louisiana a bigger share of the royalties from offshore oil and gas drilling.
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Russia brushed aside an American court&#39;s attempt to halt the auction of the oil giant Yukos&#39; biggest production unit, but a consortium of international banks withdrew
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Groups in Alaska have sued the U.S. Interior Department to block an offshore oil and gas lease sale that residents say threatens Arctic marine wildlife and the traditional Inupiat Eskimo way of life.
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Exxon said it was reviewing its legal options in the wake of AlaskaÂs decision to strip it of leases to an oil and gas field.
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By THOMAS CONTENT and LEE BERGQUIST  In a setback for the state's largest utility, a Dane County circuit judge has ruled that a water permit for the $2.2 billion power plant under construction in Oak Creek does not comply with a recent federal appeals court decision.