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Biden to block oil drilling in ‘irreplaceable’ Alaskan wildlands

Por: Portland Press Herald World September 06, 2023

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Caribou and geese in North Slope Borough, Alaska, in May 2019. Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post file President Biden moved Wednesday to protect more than 10 million acres of Alaska’s North Slope from development, barring oil drilling across giant swaths and canceling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge issued under President Donald Trump. The conservation push covers nearly half of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A),... + full article



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