The Trump administration has begun the process to open a large area of federal waters off Alaska to oil and gas drilling, taking comments on a plan for drilling that is already being challenged in court.
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| Early exploratory wells in the American Arctic didn’t produce enough oil or gas, and with falling oil prices, many large companies abandoned plans for the region. New attempts are running into other challenges. |
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced on Thursday that it is going to start accepting comments from the public about bringing oil drilling to roughly 65 million acres of offshore waters in the Beaufort Sea and plans to hold a lease sale in 2019.
The waters have been in dispute since early in the Trump administration. In one of his final acts as president, Barack Obama had placed them off limits to drilling. And in one of his early acts as president, Donald Trump moved to overturn that with an executive order of his own.
Read the Inside Climate News story by Sabrina Shankman - “U.S. Starts Process to Open Arctic to Offshore Drilling, Despite Federal Lawsuit.”
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