The Trump administration has taken new steps to bring “Drill, Baby, Drill” to Alaska, poised to roll back rules imposed under former President Joe Biden that restricted oil and gas development in the nation’s largest tract of public land.
The Department of Interior on Monday announced that it had proposed rescinding a rule issued by the Bureau of Land Management in April of last year meant to keep 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska off-limits to drilling operations.
The rule banned drilling on nearly half of the NPR-A, with the aim to conserve the land, environment, and habitats of wildlife in the region, including polar bears, caribou, and thousands of migratory birds.
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The Trump administration has since blasted it as government overreach,
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