On this edition of Your Call's One Planet Series, we discuss theTrump administration’s decision to allow oil and gas leasing across the entire Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) coastal plain, a landscape that has been protected for more than four decades.

In Politico, Adam Federman writes that re-opening ANWR for drilling would almost certainly invite environmental groups and tribes opposed to the action to file legal complaints to stop it. It will also test oil companies’ desire to send rigs to a remote area that has long been a rallying cry for the environmental movement just as low crude prices are causing Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips and others in the industry to lay off workers.

The Alaska Wilderness League says, “Opening the entire coastal plain of the Arctic refuge to drilling

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