The Biden administration is expected to cancel controversial leases to drill for oil in a wildlife refuge in Alaska that were granted under the Trump administration.
The Trump administration granted the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority the rights to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — which is home to a number of species and land considered sacred by the Gwich’in tribe.
Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) told The Hill he was informed by the Interior Department that the cancellation was coming.
“It is good news. It’s not mission accomplished, but it preserves a
path to permanent protection of the Arctic Refuge,” said Huffman, who has introduced a bill to permanently protect the refuge from drilling...more
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