nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor2 670N|||Trump Had Allowed Oil And Gas Leases In The Arctic. Now Biden Is Taking Them Back||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||The Interior Department delayed leases in the refuge that had been issued to Alaska's state-owned economic development corporation and two smaller companies in the final days of Donald Trump's presidency.

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Caribou migrate onto the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. The Biden administration suspended on Tuesday oil and gas leases in the refuge that had been issued to Alaska's state-owned economic development corporation and two smaller companies.



U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP


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Trump Had Allowed Oil And Gas Leases In The Arctic. Now Biden Is Taking Them Back

Alaska Public Media

The Interior Department delayed leases in the refuge that had been issued to Alaska's state-owned economic development corporation and two smaller companies in the final days of Donald Trump's presidency.