Climate change: Alaskan wilderness opens up for oil exploration
The Trump administration pushes ahead with first oil lease sales in an Arctic wildlife refuge. …
“The Trump administration is barrelling forward without doing the careful, legally required analyses of the impacts such activity will have on the environment or the Gwich’in people who have relied on this land for millennia,” said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, who had sought an injunction against the sale.