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Trump Administration Auctions Contested Arctic Lands for Oil Drilling
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Oil companies won the right to drill on more than 1.3 million acres across the Alaskan Arctic on Wednesday, including areas that local Alaska Native leaders consider critical to wildlife and subsistence hunting and land set aside for conservation. It was the first lease sale in the region since 2019 and marked the next phase […]