JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) The Bureau of Land Management is moving ahead with a new environmental review of oil and gas leasing in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
This comes after Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said she found deficiencies in a prior review that provided a basis for the first lease sale on the refuge’s coastal plain earlier this year.
The federal land agency said Tuesday it is opening a public process to determine the scope of the review and to identify the major issues related to a leasing program.
Conservationists welcomed news of the review but also called on Congress to repeal the provisions of law calling for lease sales.
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Feds review oil, gas leasing in Alaska
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) The Bureau of Land Management is moving ahead with a new environmental review of oil and gas leasing in Alaska s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge after the Interior secretary said she found “multiple legal deficiencies” in a prior review that provided a basis for the first lease sale on the refuge s coastal plain earlier this year.
The federal land agency announced plans Tuesday for a public process to determine the scope of the review and identify major issues related to a leasing program. Information gathered during that process will influence development of the review, according to an agency notice.
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JUNEAU, Alaska The Bureau of Land Management is moving ahead with a new environmental review of oil and gas leasing in Alaska s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge after the Interior secretary said she found multiple legal deficiencies in a previous review that provided a basis for the first lease sale on the refuge s coastal plain earlier this year.
The federal land agency announced plans Tuesday for a public process to determine the scope of the review and identify major issues related to a leasing program. Information gathered during that process will influence development of the review, according to an agency notice.
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