The action comes ahead of the Biden admin's expected approval of the controversial Willow oil project.
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Biden is prohibiting future oil and gas leasing in the entire U.S. Arctic Ocean, per an Interior Department statement. The department is writing a new proposed rule to protect over 13 million acres in the NPR-A, which its statement noted was populated by grizzly and polar bears, caribou and hundreds of thousands of migratory birds.The Interior Department said Biden's withdrawal of some 2.
The department said the new rule will, in addition to protecting wildlife, safeguard subsistence uses in the NPR-A, "responding to Alaska Native communities who have relied on the land, water, and wildlife to support their way of life for thousands of years."The Arctic Ocean protections, while sweeping in area, don't cover a region of near-term drilling interest by oil and gas companies.
The move to more permanently protect swaths of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, including the area around Teshekpuk Lake, is potentially more significant as far as land conservation and species protection goes.In general, these moves are seen as being timed to try to minimize some of the blowback that may result from the administration's expected approval of ConocoPhillips' big Willow oil project.
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