Biden Makes Last-Minute Bid to Slow Arctic Oil Drilling
Though Trump Could Cast Aside Predecessor’s Plan and Ignore Interim Safeguards, That Action Could Be Challenged in Court
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System near Copperville, Alaska. (David Acker/Bloomberg News)
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The Biden administration advanced a plan to limit oil drilling and infrastructure across more of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, a bid to lock in land protections and conservation requirements days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
The Interior Department’s Jan. 16 move represents the latest step by outgoing President Joe Biden to enshrine protections that could complicate Trump plans to rapidly expand oil and gas development across U.S. federal lands and waters. In recent weeks, Biden also has designated new national monuments and ruled out the sale o…
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