US to offer oil and gas leases in Alaska wildlife refuge on January 9The agency will make 400,000 acres available to drillers at the auction, the minimum required by a 2017 law that mandated the sale.
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A view of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
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The Biden administration will offer oil and gas drilling leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge at a sale on January 9, the US Interior Department said on Monday.
The agency will make 400,000 acres available to drillers at the auction, the minimum required by a 2017 law that mandated the sale.