Alaska. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care
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The Trump administration announced a new plan that could open up an additional 6.6 million acres within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to fossil fuel development.
One of the plan’s proposals would allow drilling on 80 percent of the reserve, considered the largest undisturbed tract of public land in the United States…
Read Full Article; Yale E360 (11-22-2019)
Trump Moves to Open Nearly All Offshore Waters to Drilling; The New York Times (01-04-2018)
Trump Spares NO Coast, Every State at Risk: A Call To Take Action, By NRDC (01-05-2018)
Business View: ‘No Good Reason For Drilling’; Coastal review (05-31-2017)
Every aspect of offshore drilling, from exploration to transporting the product from the drilling site, has implications for marine life and coastal communities…
The ‘Job-Killing’ Fiction Behind Trump’s Retreat on Fuel Economy Standards; Yale E360 (04-20-2017)
Estimates of offshore drilling’s benefits exaggerated, report says, The Virginian Pilot (12-15-2015)
