JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday it will restrict new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres (5.3 ...
The moves also shore up support from tribes and conservation groups, but face criticism from Alaska lawmakers.
The oil industry’s top lobbying group says Biden administration rules restricting oil and gas leasing in 13 million acres of ...
Biden’s earlier approval of the massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska was a bitter disappointment to many environment-focused voters, and Haaland herself, who opposed the project while ...
The proposed industrial road to Ambler is seen by supporters as vital to mining but by critics as a threat to habitat and ...
Climate activists are outraged that Biden appears open to the huge Willow project on Alaska's North Slope, which they call a “carbon bomb” that would break his campaign pledge to curtail oil drilling ...
The moves show the Biden administration continuing its efforts to win favor with the environmental voters put off by his administration's approval of the massive Willow oil project in Alaska and ...
Environmentalists excoriated Mr. Biden for his administration’s final approval earlier last year of an enormous $8 billion oil drilling project in Alaska known as Willow. At the other end of the ...
The pipeline project became the most controversial one in the U.S. since the Trans-Alaska ... approval. The State Department determined that the project was unlikely to have a significant impact ...
If the Interior Department rejects the road that would tap a vast copper and critical mineral deposit, it would burnish the Biden administration’s conservation record after approving the Willow oil ...
The action could jeopardize Biden's support from environmental allies and young voters already disenchanted by the Democratic administration's approval last year of the massive Willow oil project in ...
The Interior Department released a new regulation Friday that will affect 13 million acres in Alaska from being drilled for ...