This story was updated at 3:50 p.m. EDT.
Conservation groups are suing to protect endangered species from a sprawling $43 billion liquefied natural gas export project in Alaska.
Polar bears, Cook Inlet beluga whales and North Pacific right whales are all being placed at risk by the federal government’s approval of the Alaska LNG project, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club claimed in a new lawsuit filed Thursday in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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“Our climate can’t take more fossil fuel extraction and neither can these desperately imperiled animals,” said Kristen Monsell, oceans legal director at the CBD, in a statement.
