On today’s midday report with host Kirsten Dobroth: Environmental groups sue over the Biden administration’s approval of Willow, and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Tuesday ended the government’s defense of a land exchange agreement that would have allowed the Alaska Peninsula community of King Cove to build a road to reach an all-weather airport.
Midday Report March 15, 2023
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