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Trump Officials Visit Alaska as Interior Department Pushes Proposal Rescinding Biden-era Arctic Protections

Inside Climate News · By Kate Furby · last updated
The secretaries of energy and the interior and the EPA administrator joined Gov. Mike Dunleavy at the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference to encourage more extraction of oil and gas in the state.

By Kate Furby

The Department of the Interior announced a proposal last week to cancel its protections of 13 million acres of Alaskan land inside a previously created reserve.