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Biden administration officials in the Bureau of Land Management on Monday announced their plans to return to Obama-era rules for oil and gas development in the vast National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska on the North Slope.
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Environmentalists pledged to fight the Biden administration's defense of a $6 billion oil and gas project on Alaska's North Slope, setting up a conflict with green groups that have largely cheered the Interior Department's newly tougher stance on fossil fuel extraction on public lands.
Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve is full of wildflowers and wildlife. Alaska Wilderness League This issue brief is part of a series outlining public lands in Alaska that are in danger of losing protection. Overview Since 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service have advanced five efforts that would dramatically alter protections for some 60 million acres of federally managed land in Alaska. If fully enacted, the policies and decisions outlined in those proposed and finalized plans would open vast stretches of the Bering Sea-Western Interior, Tongass Nation...
The Bureau of Land Management announced earlier this week that it has finalized a new Integrated Activity Plan for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced earlier this week that it has finalized a new Integrated Activity Plan (IAP) for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A). BLM said the new IAP includes important safeguards for wildlife and sensitive resources, while allowing for responsible oil and gas leasing across 18.6 million acres of the NPR-A. Safeguards include no surface occupancy, controlled surface use, timing limitatio...