President Biden is suspending oil drilling leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, people familiar say. They were approved days before Trump left office.
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is putting a hold on oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, the latest move in its effort to stop a first-ever oil-drilling program in the pristine 19-million-acre wilderness.The Interior Department, which oversees the program and the refuge, said it will start a deeper analysis of the environmental impacts of drilling in the area.
However. Congress passed a mandate to lease oil rights in the coastal plain of the refuge in its tax overhaul in 2017, when both the House and Senate were in Republican control.
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