President Trump's Last Anti-environmental Ploy Falls Flat
The exiting president's effort to auction oil-drilling rights for large swaths of the coastal plains in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) found little interest.
It generated a mere $14.4 million in bids, with major oil companies staying on the sidelines. Bids were submitted for only half of the land, and most came from the state government rather than private companies. "They held the lease in ANWR — that is history-making. That will be recorded in the history books and people will talk about it," Larry Persily, an Alaskan who tracks the fossil fuel industry in the state, told NPR. "But no one showed up."
The Guardian reports that Adam Kolton of the Alaska Wilderness League said, "This lease sale was an epic failure for the Trump administration and the Alaska congressional delegation."
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