Dems push for closing ANWR
It’s been a while since ANWR came up on the national stage, but a big group of Senate Democrats (and one Independent) in Washington today introduced a bill to designate the Coastal Plan of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness.
The 1.5 million acre Coastal Plain is the northern-most chunk of the 19 million acre refuge.
It’s got a lot of oil and it’s got a lot of animals.
Around 8 million acres of the refuge is already designated Wilderness, a permanent protection status restricting lands to specific uses. The designation would end oil and gas development in the Coastal Plain.
News-Miner reporters Stefan Milkowski and Eric Lidji bring you up-to-date info about the governor's oil tax and
the gas line plans as well as tossing in some tidbits that have nowhere else to go.
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