Oil and gas drilling in Alaska just got a whole lot easier, as the Trump administration is rolling back rules imposed under former President Joe Biden that restricted fossil fuel development in the nation’s largest tract of public land.
The Department of the Interior announced Thursday that it is rescinding a rule issued by the Bureau of Land Management in April 2024, which had blocked drilling on 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
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