Trump Clears Alaska’s Oil Path—Again

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The Trump administration has formally scrapped a trio of policy documents that imposed new limitations on oil and gas development in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve (NPR-A), the DOI said on Monday, clearing the decks for a new wave of drilling across the 23-million-acre expanse. This marks the latest salvo in Trump’s aggressive energy dominance strategy—and a direct reversal of Biden-era efforts to wall off roughly 10.6 million acres from future leasing. At the heart of the move is a power shift: taking discretion out of the…