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U.S. President Joe Bidenâs administration on Tuesday said it would suspend oil and gas leases that were handed out in an Alaska wildlife refuge during the final days of the Trump administration pending an environmental review.
The action reverses one of former president Donald Trumpâs signature efforts to expand fossil fuel development in the United States and delivers a setback to the Alaskan state government, which had hoped opening the enormous refuge would help revive its declining oil industry.
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