President Obama plans to take the unprecedented step as soon as Tuesday to ban all drilling in the Arctic seas after months of pressure by environmental groups to do so before President-elect Trump is sworn into office next month.
The Obama administration released a five-year drilling plan last month that withholds federal drilling leases in the Arctic, but many environmental groups said that doesn’t go far enough and want the president to take the executive action of instituting a ban in the icy north.
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