BLM Reopens National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska for Drilling
The Trump administration overturned a Biden-era ban on oil and gas development on the state’s North Slope.
Fish Creek winds through the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, managed by the Bureau of Land Management on Alaska's North Slope, on July 8, 2004. David W. Houseknecht/United States Geological Survey via AP
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will open more public land for oil and gas drilling in Alaska, the agency announced on Dec. 22.
BLM updated an activity plan for the National Petroleum Reserve on Alaska’s North Slope that reopens an area nearly the size of South Carolina to oil and gas leasing, overturning Biden-era restrictions.
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