A detailed mandate to lift restrictions on Alaska’s oil and gas, mining and timber industries operating on federal lands made the cut for the swath of executive orders issued Monday by President Donald Trump.
The order titled “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential” was expected — and reinstates several of the first Trump administration’s management documents over oil-rich places like the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A).
It also retracts much of the Biden administration’s efforts to curtail drilling and other development in the Frontier State.
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The presidential order commits to “an immediate end to the assault on Alaska’s sovereignty and its ability to responsibly develop these resources for the benefit of the Nation.”
