Biden-backed infrastructure bill would repeal oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic refuge
The provision — one sentence in a 1,684-page bill — would end the program and refund leaseholders.
The $1.75 trillion “Build Back Better” infrastructure bill promoted by President Biden would revoke the program that opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil development and refund the money that bidders spent in a lightly attended lease sale held by the Trump administration.
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