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Trump Administration Issues Last-Minute Blows to the Arctic
The Trump administration is trampling on the Arctic on its way out. On Wednesday, the Bureau of Land Management will auction off the drilling rights for plots on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain on its eastern North Slope, an area currently untouched by developers. The move will encourage more oil and gas development…
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U.S. Republicans Write Whiny Letter in Desperate Effort to Save Arctic Oil and Gas Industry
In the last year, some big banks committed to protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska through withholding their investments from the Arctic as a whole. Seems like Alaska’s elected officials are pretty pissed about it. In fact, they’ve formally made a whole stink about the new environmental policies banks such as Goldman Sachs…
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Alaska Natives Demanded Goldman Sachs Not Fund Arctic Drilling, And It Listened
Money talks, and that’s why environmental activists”and, more specifically, indigenous peoples”have been pressuring banks for years to stop throwing their money toward fossil fuel extraction projects. Finally, major banks are starting to listen. Goldman Sachs announced Sunday that it’s finally listening and won’t fund new coal projects globally or any extraction projects in the Arctic,…
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Trump Is One Step Closer To Opening America’s Largest Wildlife Refuge To Oil And Gas
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is a nearly 20 million-acre large national treasure. It’s the largest piece of untouched land in the U.S., home to polar bears, Porcupine caribou, and migratory birds. But it won’t be pristine for much longer if President Donald Trump has his way.