Republicans said they were seeking ways to quickly reverse the restrictions in the state’s North Slope region.

The Biden administration is setting in motion actions that could prevent drilling in more “special areas” of Alaska’s north slope — if the incoming Trump administration does not shelve it. The

The Interior Department, which manages ANWR, said it had identified areas of the refuge for protection to preserve fish and wildlife used by subsistence hunters there. "Fish and wildlife have provided food for Alaska Native people in this region for millennia and,

Four days before President Joe Biden is set to leave office, his administration recommended that about 3 million more acres in Alaska’s western Arctic be protected from development and issued a guideline,