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
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Road traffic has long posed a challenge to caribou on the North Slope. For decades, there has been a standard for oil field traffic heavy enough to disturb the animals: