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Trump’s signature bill has Alaska priorities
ed permits for the planned 211-mile Ambler Access Project, an industrial road reaching into an area of north - west Alaska where companies are exploring copper discoveries. Other sections of the bill require the federal government to dispose of federal lands and to increase tim - ber harvests in national forests such as the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska. For Alaskans interested in oil and
the U.S. House and is now in the Sen - ate, would speed oil and gas leasing and development in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Ref - uge (ANWR) in far northeast Alas - ka, and similarly restore a leasing program in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska in the western North Slope. The legislation would also rescind a decision by former U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland that void -
Among highlights, Ambler Road set to gain traction President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” has much in store for Alaska. The lands and natural resources section of the bill, which has passed
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