The Trump administration is still downplaying how much land Arctic refuge drilling will disturb
OPINION: A claim that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would have a 2,000-acre footprint was never based in reality. The Trump administration keeps promoting it.
December 31, 2018
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As the Trump administration moves ahead with plans to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration as soon as possible, it is trying to preserve the fiction that the “surface disturbance” will be limited to 2,000 acres.
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