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Trump administration schedules another Arctic oil lease sale amid push for more Alaska drilling

The NPR-A lease sale takes place in December. Meanwhile, officials are pushing to open far more of the reserve to future drilling.

By Yereth Rosen November 6, 2019
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The Trump administration is putting oil leases for 3.98 million acres of federal lands in Arctic Alaska on the auction block next month, part of a wider policy to encourage more development in Alaska.

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