Experts Warn About Negative Impacts of Biden Administration’s Oil Restrictions In Alaska by Patricia Tolson – US Politics News

While environmental and climate change advocates are celebrating the Biden administration’s drilling moratorium on almost half of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, experts are warning of the detrimental impacts.
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on April 19 that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had finalized a rule that will ban oil and gas drilling on over 13 million acres in the Western Arctic.
The BLM also released its Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, denying re-approval of the Ambler Road project, which was proposed by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) in September 2022.
While the moves have been praised by environmental and climate change advocates, critics say they ignore the detrimental impacts these new rules will have on the local economy and national security….