US EditionTrump approves contentious drilling and mining in Alaska
The Interior Department restored 1.56 million acres for leasing and reinstated canceled state leases to enhance energy independence and economic growth in Alaska, officials said.
- The Trump administration finalized plans to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for potential oil and gas drilling, marking a significant political and environmental development.
- This decision fulfills a campaign promise by President Donald Trump and Congress to promote energy exploration in the Arctic region, which is vital to the Indigenous Gwich’in people.
- U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the plan, enabling at least four lease sales over the next decade.
- Conservation groups, including The Wilderness Society, pledged to legally challenge this decision due to its impact on wildlife habitat.
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Trump Administration Opens 1.5 Million Acres of Alaskan Wildlife Refuge to Oil and Gas Drilling
The Trump administration finalized plans Thursday to open more than a million-and-a-half acres of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. The Interior Department also announced the first oil and gas lease sale with the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska since 2019, and it approved a more than 200-mile industrial road through Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. Environmentalists condemned the announcements. In a…
Interior's Alaska drilling move caps lengthy congressional saga
The reinstatement of an oil and gas leasing program on the entire Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge fulfills a requirement in the recently enacted reconciliation law, but the highly contentious fight over drilling in the northeast corner of Alaska goes back almost half a century. The Interior Department announced Thursday it was making the entire 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of ANWR available for oil and gas leasing, implem…
Trump Opens Alaskan Wilderness to Drilling Months After Climate Disaster
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Hawaii Tribune-Herald
West Hawaii TodayTrump opens pristine Alaska wilderness to drilling in long-running feud
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday announced a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest remaining tracts of pristine wilderness in the United States.
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