Salon: A federal appeals court decision handed down this week may further complicate Royal Dutch Shells plans to drill in the Arctic this summer--plans that were already complicated by the fact that the oil giant had a disastrous Arctic outing in 2012, demonstrating that its difficult and dangerous to drill for oil in a place with extreme cold, turbulent seas, and no nearby disaster assistance.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that when the U.S. government...