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Trump budget seeks to halve oil stockpile, open Arctic refuge to drilling

By Timothy Gardner, Reuters May 23, 2017
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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s White House wants to sell half of the nation’s emergency oil stockpile and open the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to drilling as part of plans to balance the budget over the next 10 years, documents by the administration showed.

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