Read more about US: Joe Biden plans temporary halt of oil activity in Arctic refuge on Business Standard. The plans, along with other executive actions, were announced by press secretary Jen Psaki
Joe Biden plans temporary halt of oil activity in Arctic refuge
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January 21, 2021 11:50 IST
The fight to open the coastal plain to drilling goes back decades, with the State’s Republican congressional delegation hailing the issuance of leases as “significant and meaningful for Alaska’s future.”
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This undated aerial file photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a herd of caribou on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021, signalled plans to place a temporary moratorium on oil and gas lease activities in Alaska s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge after the Trump administration issued leases in a remote, rugged area considered sacred by the Indigenous Gwich in.
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As President Joe Biden was sworn into office Wednesday, his inauguration signaled a dramatic shift in environmental policy and impacts to the oil and gas industry.
A group of congresspeople urged the incoming administration to enact tougher restrictions on air pollution created by oil and gas production.
The group of 23 Senate Democrats were led by Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico in penning a letter to Biden calling for the restoration of strict regulations on methane emissions from fossil fuel operations following multiple rollbacks of such regulations under former-President Donald Trump.
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