Here We Go Again: New Arctic Refuge Oil & Gas Lease Sales Required under Reconciliation Bill - Taxpayers for Common Sense

Here We Go Again: New Arctic Refuge Oil & Gas Lease Sales Required under Reconciliation Bill - Taxpayers for Common Sense

Over seven years ago, Congress mandated two federal oil and gas lease sales in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in their FY2018 budget reconciliation package—known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Now, two failed leases sales later, Congress is proposing to do it again.   The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), established in 1960 under President Dwight Eisenhower, is in the far reaches of remote northeastern Alaska. The proposed…