US EditionTrump administration repealing protections for key swaths of Alaska petroleum reserve
The repeal opens over 80% of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve to leasing, aiming to boost jobs, energy security, and meet congressional mandates, officials said.
- Trump administration rescinded federal rules aimed at protecting Alaska's petroleum reserve from future oil and gas leasing.
- The Biden-era rules had called for regularly evaluating whether to designate new protected areas or increase protections due to climate change impacts.
- Local leaders welcomed the rule change as restoring a process respecting their knowledge, while environmentalists criticized dropping regulations on managing lands and wildlife.
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Trump admin to end Biden-era rules on drilling and mining in Alaska wilderness
The Trump administration plans to allow oil and gas development across millions of acres in Alaska's North Slope that were restricted under the Biden administration. The decision announced Thursday by the Interior Department opens the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska for drilling and mining. The rule reverses protections put in place in May 2024 that limited drilling in five designated Special Areas covering more than 13 millio…
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Interior Department takes next step to spur Alaska energy production
(The Center Square) — The Department of the Interior said Friday it will rescind a 2024 rule that limits energy production in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, the latest step announced by the Trump administration to increase oil and…
In Pristine Alaska Wild, the Drills Are Firing Up
The Trump administration has finalized plans to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to potential oil and gas drilling, renewing a long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation's environmental jewels. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the decision on Thursday that paves the...
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