Trump in final push to open up Alaska's Arctic refuge to oil and gas drilling
by Emily Holden in Washington from on (#5702P)
- Interior department to auction leases before year's end
- Critics condemn plan to drill in America's last great wilderness'
The Trump administration is taking the final steps to let oil and gas companies drill in the Arctic national wildlife refuge - which environment advocates call the nation's last great wilderness".
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