A last-minute decision will shrink the area open to oil leases in Alaska’s Arctic refuge by about 30 percent
The Bureau of Land Management said it removed some tracts from a future oil and gas lease sale in response to public comments.
Just days before the Trump administration is set to accept the first sealed bids by oil companies, the agency tasked with auctioning off drilling rights within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge cut about 30 percent of the territory from the scheduled lease sale.
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