President Biden is moving to narrow a Trump-era lease mandate in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, holding a lease sale just two weeks before his term ends.
The Biden administration is narrowing the scope of oil and gas leases mandated during the Trump era before the former president assumes office for a second term. When President-elect Trump first occupied the Oval Office in 2017, he signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which required at least two oil and gas drilling lease sales in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by December 2024.
With the 2024 deadline looming, the Biden administration suggested leasing the smallest amount of land required under the law. The Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management released a memo on the project, offering four alternatives for the second lease, but announced on Monday they would be moving forward with the minimum 400,000 acres within the northwest portion of the program area.
communications director Josie Wells said much of the population of Kaktovik, a remote community on Barter Island to the east of Prudhoe Bay, was in favor of AIDEA's lease purchase there. "That local community is very much going to be impacted," Wells said. "And what's interesting is that some of the folks that are against the project don't live in the area. They are not anywhere near that area.
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