The Senate voted to reverse Biden administration drilling restrictions in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, allowing the Trump administration to further open Alaska‘s North Slope to new oil and gas development. 

In a 49 to 45 vote, the Senate advanced a resolution of congressional disapproval undoing the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management’s restrictions on oil and gas leasing in the refuge issued late last year. 

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