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The Interior Department announced Tuesday the suspension of all Arctic National Wildlife Refuge leases pending an environmental analysis, shutting down one of the Trump administration's landmark energy initiatives.
The action reverses one of former President Donald Trump's signature efforts to expand fossil fuel development in the United States.
Joe Biden had pledged to protect the 19.6 million-acre pristine habitat for polar bears, caribou and migratory birds
The action reverses Trump's efforts to expand fossil fuel development in the U.S., and delivers a setback to the Alaska nt which had hoped opening the refuge would help its declining oil industry.
The action places leases purchased in January in limbo.