Associated Press: The federal Minerals Management Service gave final approval Wednesday to oil and natural gas development off Alaska’s northwest shore, drawing condemnation from environmental groups concerned with the effects on marine mammals. The MMS said it would hold a lease sale Feb. 6 in Anchorage for bidding on nearly 46,000 square miles of outer continental shelf lands in the Chukchi Sea, the part of the Arctic Ocean that begins north of the Bering Strait and stretches between northwest Alaska …