The BLM says it's ditching a Trump administration plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and will return to a 2013 plan that's more protective of Teshekpuk Lake, a large wetlands important to shorebirds, loons and caribou.
The Bureau of Land Management announced Monday that it is ditching a Trump administration plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and instead will return to managing the area according to a 2013 plan crafted by the Obama administration.
But the BLM says the decision still leaves nearly 12 million acres available for oil and gas leasing. That’s slightly more than 50% of the NPR-A. The Trump administration had wanted closer to 80% open to drilling. There was never a lease sale under Trump’s plan.in January it was considering reversing the Trump-era policy, drawing outrage from Alaska’s congressional delegation.
The NPR-A is roughly the size of Indiana and is the country’s largest unit of public land. Environmental groups prefer to call it the Western Arctic. “Addressing the climate emergency means ending new fossil fuel extraction, and we can’t keep going in the opposite direction,” Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in an emailed statement.
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