US government halts Trump-era plan to approve mining road in Alaska

Officials finds significant deficiencies' in decision-making process that approved plan to build road through indigenous land

The Biden administration has halted a Trump-era plan to approve a mining road in Alaska that would cut through indigenous land and alter one of the last roadless wildernesses in the US.

The construction of the Ambler Road in northwest Alaska was permitted under Donald Trump over the objections from some native American groups, allowing the laying of 211 miles of road through the traditional homelands of the Koyukon, Tanana Athabascans and Inupiat peoples.