The Trump administration’s plans to expand offshore drilling are on hold after a March court ruling blocked drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt told the Wall Street Journal. The newly-confirmed secretary in an article published on Thursday said the agency’s five-year plan for oil and gas drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf would be sidelined indefinitely as it waits for the case to go through the appeals process. “By the time the court rules, that may be discombobulating to our plan,” Bernhardt told the Journal. A federal judge in Alaska on March 30 ruled that President Donald Trump’s 2017 order to revoke the Obama administration’s […]