The BLM says it's ditching a Trump administration plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and will return to a 2013 Obama administration plan. The BLM says the decision still leaves more than 50% of the NPR-A available for oil and gas leasing.
The Bureau of Land Management announced Monday that it is ditching a Trump administration plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and instead will revert to managing the area according to a 2013 plan crafted by the Obama administration.
But the BLM says the decision still leaves nearly 12 million acres available for oil and gas leasing. That’s slightly more than 50% of the NPR-A. The Trump administration had wanted closer to 80% open to drilling. There was never a lease sale under Trump’s plan.in January it was considering reversing the Trump-era policy, drawing outrage from Alaska’s congressional delegation.
The NPR-A is roughly the size of Indiana and is the country’s largest unit of public land. Environmental groups prefer to call it the Western Arctic.
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