Four days before President Joe Biden is set to leave office, his administration recommended that about 3 million more acres in Alaska’s western Arctic be protected from development and issued a guideline,
President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday moved to put more of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off limits to oil and gas development, in a last-minute bid to complicate President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to boost drilling in the area.
While presented as an expansion of protections for Alaska Native traditions, native communities in the North Slope have long been critical of the Biden-Harris administration’s war on oil and gas in the region,
The entire Northern Bering Sea is now off-limits to oil and gas leasing, under a presidential directive announced on Monday. President Joe Biden invoked his authority under a federal law to withdraw about 44 million acres of the Northern Bering Sea and other federal offshore areas from the Department of the Interior’s oil and gas
In response, Alaska’s new U.S. representative, Nick Begich III, called Biden a “son of a bitch” on social media and incorrectly suggested the action applied to Cook Inlet.
The president will prohibit future oil and gas drilling off the East and West coasts, eastern Gulf of Mexico and remaining portions of Alaska's Northern Bering Sea
President Joe Biden has banned future oil and gas drilling in more than 625 million acres of the U.S. ocean, including federal waters off Ventura County.
Rest assured, Joe Biden will fail, and we will drill, baby, drill.” Biden has proposed up to three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico, but none in Alaska, as he tries to navigate between energy companies seeking greater oil and gas production ...
The Interior Department’s Jan. 16 move represents the latest step by outgoing President Joe ... as Biden Rushes Infrastructure Projects “Fish and wildlife have provided food for Alaska Native ...
A group of Republican-led states filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging a ban announced by outgoing Democratic U.S. President Joe Bidenearlier this month on new offshore oil and gas development along most U.
Jan 16 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday moved to put more of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off limits to oil and gas development, in a last-minute bid to ...
The Biden administration advanced a plan to limit oil drilling and infrastructure across more of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, a bid to lock in land protections and conservation requirements days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.