The Trump administration opens the coastal plain of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas leasing after then-President Biden closed it to development.

The Trump administration is opening the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas leasing, reversing a Biden administration decision that put the pristine wilderness area off limits.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the agency was opening the 1.56 million acres of tundra on the state’s North Slope and holding a lease sale in the winter in the nearby National Petroleum Reserve. It’s the latest move by President Trump’s administration to boost domestic fossil fuel production.

“This land should and will be supporting responsible oil and gas leasing,” Burgum said during an event

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