Biden’s approval of oil lease sale keeps door open to Alaska’s Arctic refuge drilling

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The Biden administration has given approval for the sale of oil and gas leases in Alaska.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. A 2017 law mandated lease sales in the refuge’s coastal plain by late 2024, but has not led to oil drilling yet. It’s unclear if that will change with approval for a new sale.

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VERBATIM: The approval leaves the door open for drilling in a portion of the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The sale will be held next month, less than two weeks before Mr. Biden leaves office. It will include a fraction of the land total that was available for bidding roughly four years ago in a lease sale under the Trump administration.