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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
The Biden administration recommended rejecting permits for a 211-mile gravel industrial haul road to the Ambler Mining District on Friday, citing extensive environmental concerns and overwhelming public objection by environmental
The decisions underscore the Biden administration’s attempt to curb mining and drilling on public lands.
Alaska’s U.S. senators and representatives of resource-extraction industries accused the Biden administration on Thursday of breaking federal laws by rejecting a controversial plan to build a road through the Brooks Range foothills and making final rules that strengthen environmental protections on federal land on the western side of the North Slope. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, […] The post Alaska’s U.S. senators say pending decisions on Ambler road and NPR-A are illegal appeared first on Ala
The Biden administration expanded federal protections across millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness on Friday, blocking oil, gas and mining operations in some of the most unspoiled land in the country.