Donald Trump’s administration has begun a process to open swaths of Alaska’s wilderness to oil drillers by scrapping Joe Biden-era restrictions as the president pushes ahead with sweeping green rollbacks.
The US interior department on Monday published a proposal to ditch a rule introduced by Trump’s predecessor that protects much of the state’s 23mn acre National Petroleum Reserve from oil and gas extraction.
“We’re changing course and bringing in an energy renaissance that utilises Alaska’s resources instead of burying them under red tape,” said US interior secretary Doug Burgum, who visited the region on Monday.
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