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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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June 02, 2021 07:28 IST
Trump’s Interior Department had sold the leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in January over the objections of environmentalists and indigenous groups.
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Activists attend a protest against the legislation that would open Wilderness in Alaska to oil drilling on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. File photo.
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Trump’s Interior Department had sold the leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in January over the objections of environmentalists and indigenous groups.
The action reverses one of former President Donald Trump’s 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.