"Conservationists fighting Alaskan efforts to build a 211-mile industrial mining road across pristine lands of the southern Brooks Range, including a portion of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, told a federal court that President Donald Trump and his team violated numerous environmental laws in pushing through approvals to let it proceed.
Ten environmental organizations this past week asked the U.S. District Court of Alaska to void Trump’s October 6 order granting rights of way across Gates of the Arctic and lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and asked the court to also bar any implementation of the federal agency permits that quickly followed his directive.
The filing was a supplemental complaint in a lawsuit the conservation groups initially filed during the first Trump administration. The complaint contends that Trump exceeded his authority in ordering the permits for the Ambler mining road, and that the National Park Service, BLM and Army Corps of Engineers, and the Alaska agency that is sponsoring the road broke several federal laws by failing to assess and outline mitigation for environmental and subsistence damage that the road will cause."
Rita Beamish reports for National Parks Traveler January 25, 2026.
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