Politics www.arctictoday.com Trump administration finalizes an expanded drilling plan for Alaska's Arctic petroleum reserve With a little more than two weeks remaining in office, the Trump administration announced Monday that it has opened an additional 7 million acres of Arctic Alaska land to oil leasing.
Politics www.nationalgeographic.com Alaska’s petroleum reserve is open for drilling. Will the birds survive? Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve, where millions of birds come to nest and raise their young, is now under threat from petroleum development.