U.S. Narrows Arctic Oil Lease
Cap Blanc-Nez, Escalles, France. Photo by Allyson Beaucourt on Unsplash.
The U.S. Department of the Interior has issued the final Oil and Gas Leasing Program Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. The oil and gas lease sale, which is required by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, is narrowed by the Department’s Statement to the smallest acreage consistent with the Act.
For context: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10782