Arctic Refuge drilling controversy - Wikipedia
The question of whether to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has been an ongoing political controversy in the United States since 1977. [1] As of 2017, Republicans have attempted to allow drilling in ANWR almost fifty times, finally being successful with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 .
Denying Science to Drill for Oil is a Decades-long Tradition
2024年2月8日 · Interior officials had sold off drilling rights to the Arctic Refuge while willfully ignoring scientific evidence about the potential impacts of fossil fuel development. Yet the Trump...
Major Oil Companies Take A Pass On Controversial Lease Sale In Arctic …
2021年1月6日 · One of the Trump administration's biggest environmental rollbacks suffered a stunning setback Wednesday, as a decades-long push to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling controversy, explained
2017年10月16日 · Here’s who is taking action to protect the Arctic Refuge from drilling. Even as it faces the most aggressive threats to date, the Arctic Refuge has passionate legislative defenders in its...
Trump targets Alaska's oil and other resources as …
5 天之前 · It seeks, among other things, to open to oil and gas drilling an area of the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge considered sacred to the Indigenous Gwich’in, undo limits imposed by the Biden administration on drilling activity in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska on the North Slope and reverse restrictions on logging and road ...
EXPLAINER: The suspension of Arctic refuge drilling leases
2021年6月2日 · ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Decades-long political and legal battles over drilling in America’s largest wildlife refuge took another turn when the Biden administration suspended oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Alaska's senators criticize Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling ...
2023年9月6日 · The Biden administration is canceling the only seven oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
The Long, Long Battle for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - NRDC
2024年3月15日 · As the shock of the Exxon disaster faded, pro-oil legislators attempted to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling by bypassing conservation-minded filibusters.
Controversy over whether to drill within a 1.5-million-acre coastal plain region of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), specifically, the 1002 region, has been ongoing since the late 1970s and has been covered extensively in the media.
Refuge System’s (NWRS) characteristics that will contextualize the origins and competing theories regarding public land use, enabling a fuller analysis of the ANWR controversy.
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