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Associated Press: Alaska Native groups worried about losing tax revenues and royalties from oil development filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the federal government's designation of critical habitat for threatened polar bears on the state's oil-rich North Slope.
The Arctic Slope Regional Corp., North Slope Borough, Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope and other groups took issue with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to designate more than 187,000 square miles -- an area larger than California --......
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Native groups sue over polar bear critical habitat
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 14th, 2011
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