Trump administration will hold Arctic refuge oil lease sales this year, official says

Joe Balash, Interior’s assistant secretary for land and minerals management, told an oil industry group in Anchorage that an ANWR lease sale would be held in 2019.

By Yereth Rosen May 31, 2019
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After decades of oil development prohibitions in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Trump administration is poised to start auctioning off oil leases within a few months, a top Department of the Interior official said on Thursday.

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