The Trump administration this week outlined plans for selling drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, raising the stakes in a decadeslong battle to protect the far-northern Alaskan wilderness.
The Interior Department published a draft environmental impact statement online Thursday, Dec. 20, that described leasing plans to open the entire 1.6 million acres of coastal plain in the 19-million-acre refuge. Other leasing options would be more restrictive but would still open most of the coastal plain to oil and gas development. ...
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