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The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to reverse the federal government’s decision to cancel oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and restrict oil development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, but Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola, in an unexpected move, declined to vote for or against the reversal. The House bill isn’t […] The post Peltola declines to vote for Arctic drilling bill she previously supported, citing fish policy appeared first on Alaska Beacon.

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The Biden administration has put millions of acres of land in Alaska off-limits for oil and gas exploration.

The Biden administration has announced restrictions on oil and gas leasing on over 13 million acres of an Alaskan petroleum reserve.

Hunters and anglers fought to oppose a 211-mile industrial corridor that would have disrupted fish habitat and bisected ancient caribou migration routes in Alaska