https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-administration-cancels-trump-era-alaska-oil-leases
Alaska state officials criticized the Biden administration's latest move to curb oil and gas drilling in the Arctic, following the cancelation of seven Trump-era leases in the Section 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The leases were purchased by the Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority in the waning days of the Trump administration, the state agency told Fox News Digital.
The Interior Department called the cancelation of the leases one of many “significant steps” the Biden administration has taken to protect ANWR. The move will accentuate President Biden's “historic conservation and climate agenda,” the department said in a statement.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who authorized the cancelation, cited climate change warming the Arctic region more than two times the rate elsewhere on Earth. She said that such steps will “further [our] commitment, based on the best available science and in recognition of the Indigenous Knowledge of the original stewards of this area, to safeguard our public lands for future generations.”