The Trump administration is planning to roll back federal restrictions on oil and gas development across millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness.

The Department of the Interior announced a proposal to rescind protections put in place for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The reserve is a 23-million-acre area about 600 miles north of Anchorage.

The move would reverse a rule put in place under President Biden last year.

The Department of the Interior says the Biden-era rule was not consistent with the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976, and it says its new proposed plan would "eliminate roadblocks to responsible energy production."

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum appeared at an event Monday in Alaska with other administration officials to push for an expansion of dr

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