In the first few hours of his second presidency, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that could pave the way for oil drilling in North Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the ...

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Meanwhile, public hunting opportunities on state lands in Alaska have ... The mandate also targets oil and gas leasing in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and again revokes the ...

The road would harm wildlife and compromise hunting and fishing in the ... a lot of ink to oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The vast wildlife refuge, managed ...

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain is seen on July 8, 2019. Bids for the second oil and gas lease sale held in the area are set to be opened by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on ...

A vote in the United States Senate in favour of not drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska is an important victory for wildlife and aboriginal peoples in both the United States and ...

An oil and gas lease sale to drill on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will be pushed back by one day because of an official day of mourning declared for former President Jimmy Carter ...

The lease auction for oil and gas drilling in the Coastal Plain of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska has not received any bids from energy companies. The US Interior Department ...

(Bloomberg) -- Oil companies declined to bid in a US government auction for drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as industry interest wanes in a region that’s rich with crude ...

J UNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday said no bids were submitted for this week's oil and gas lease sale in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a sale the ...