An Obama-appointed federal judge in Alaska delivered a major legal victory to President Donald Trump this week, dismissing a lawsuit brought by a coalition of powerful environmental organizations seeking to block Trump’s reversal of Joe Biden’s sweeping offshore drilling restrictions.
U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason dismissed the complaint on Monday, August 24, after determining that the environmental groups failed to establish a substantial risk of imminent harm.
Gleason wasnominated to the federal bench by Barack Obama in 2011.
The case, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, et al. v. Trump, et al., was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska under case number.