By MATTHEW DALY and ELLEN KNICKMEYER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration is reevaluating its controversial plan to sharply expand offshore drilling as it responds to a court ruling that blocked drilling off Alaska.

President Donald Trump has pushed to open nearly all U.S. coastlines to offshore oil and gas drilling. But a federal judge last month ruled against Trump's executive order to open the Arctic and parts of the Atlantic. Coastal states also have opposed the expanded drilling.

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that the legal challenges may be "discombobulating" to the administration's overall drilling plans. Bernhardt says the administration may have to wait for the challenges to fully play out in court.

Interior spokeswoman Molly Block says the agency "is evaluating all of its options."

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