President Donald Trump's aim to boost oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in Alaska is being cheered by state political ...

One of the plethora of executive orders President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office aimed at boosting oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in Alaska. While state political leaders ...

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy says expanding oil and gas drilling means more than improving the state’s economy — it’s also about ...

An oil pipeline in the remote North Slope of Alaska. The village of Kaktovik is seen Oct. 14 at the edge of Barter Island in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. A rig at a drilling site ...

President Donald Trump's expansive executive order aimed at boosting oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in Alaska is being cheered by state political leaders who see new fossil fuel ...

The lawsuit targeted a now-defunct moratorium on drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

It also contains large reserves of oil and gas and was created in 1923 ... mine copper in the middle of the state, and barred drilling in Alaska waters, including the Northern Bering Sea.

“The State of Alaska holds an abundant and ... said the sale was evidence that the oil and gas industry is not interested in drilling in the Alaskan refuge, state officials argued that the ...

Photo: Jim LoScalzo - Pool via CNP/Zuma Press Speaking of sanctions (see nearby), one of President Trump’s good deeds this week was lifting Joe Biden’s economic punishment for Alaska.