Congress Reopens More of Alaska’s Arctic Refuge to Oil Leasing

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Congress has overturned a Biden-era rule restricting oil leasing in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, reverting to a broader 2020 Trump-era framework that opens more of the area to development.

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Congress just overturned a Biden-era rule that had restricted how much of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain could be leased for oil and gas. The Senate passed the resolution 49-45, using the Congressional Review Act to wipe out a 2024 Interior Department plan that kept large sections of the 1.56-million-acre area off-limits. Federal leasing will now revert to the broader 2020 Trump-era framework that opened essentially the entire Coastal Plain to development. For Alaska’s delegation and regional Native corporations,…

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Original article published by OilPrice.com on December 5, 2025.
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