Biden administration moves to add protections against drilling in Alaska petroleum reserve

Oil giant ConocoPhillips, the state of Alaska, the North Slope Borough and the Voice of the Arctic Inupiat have filed lawsuits to reverse the new rules.
July 17, 2024
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Federal officials are proposing a new set of protections in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

If approved, they could come atop the rules that Bureau of Land Management finalized this spring to limit oil and on more than half of the giant petroleum reserve.

Read the full post at phys.org.

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