Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy has sent a letter to President-elect Donald Trump urging him to overturn environmental policies implemented by the Biden administration. Dunleavy argues these policies harm Alaska's economy and requests Trump to lift restrictions on oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and National Petroleum Reserve. He also wants Trump to reinstate federal support for the controversial Ambler Road project and reverse the ban on new roads in Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest.
The Canning River, seen here in 2018, flows from the Brooks Range into the Beaufort Sea along the western edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Gov. Mike Dunleavy is urging President-elect Donald Trump to use his executive powers to lift environmental restrictions on oil development in the refuge coastal plain.
“It is essential that the Alaska specific Executive Order be issued as soon as President Trump takes office. The Biden Administration’s assault on Alaska was carried out through a multitude of official agency actions; reversal of these actions must comply with time-consuming administrative procedures,” said Dunleavy’s policy document, titled “Alaska priorities for federal transition.”
Jeff Turner, Dunleavy’s communications director, said Biden’s presidency harmed Alaska, nonetheless. “The dozens of sanctions it has placed on Alaska are strangling future economic growth and denying the state the ability to support itself with revenue and jobs created by developing our natural resources,” Turner said by email.
“We’re definitely going to be providing pushback to the wish list,” said Matt Jackson, Alaska state senior manager for The Wilderness Society.“Legality is not necessarily a top priority for either of these leaders. We may be seeing more and more illegal rollbacks, law be damned,” Jackson said. “We’re prepared.”Teshekpuk Caribou Herd animals graze in June of 2014 in the northeastern part of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Gov.
The Biden administration and the Obama administration before it supported the tribes’ trust lands aspiration, while the Republican administration, both under Trump’s previous term and under that of George W. Bush, opposed them.
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