Biden Admin Pulls Trump-Era Deal Allowing Road Through Alaska Wildlife Refuge

Biden Admin Pulls Trump-Era Deal Allowing Road Through Alaska Wildlife Refuge
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland delivers remarks at the 2021 Tribal Nations Summit, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 15, 2021. Alex Wong/Getty Images
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The Biden administration is withdrawing from a land exchange deal that would have given the green light for construction to begin on a road through the protected lands of the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the administration’s withdrawal from the deal, initially made between the Interior Department and King Cove Corporation, in a statement on March 14.

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