Joe Biden suspends Donald Trump’s Arctic drilling rights granted days before his exit
Suspension falls short of calls to invalidate lease, but Biden administration must still hold two coastal plain oil auctions to pay for 2017 tax cuts
02 June 2021 - 17:21
The Biden administration is suspending Arctic refuge drilling rights that were sold in the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency, dealing a victory to environmentalists who have argued for decades against oil development in the remote, wild region of Alaska.
Under an interior department order issued late on Tuesday, the agency is temporarily halting action on nine leases spanning more than 161,870ha of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, while it conducts a fresh environmental analysis of the programme...
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