Biden cancels Alaska oil leases, protects millions of acres in Arctic Refuge

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Here's a map showing them in Northwest Alaska: This news comes months after Biden approved the "Willow project," a large oil project within the NPRA, a move opposed by people who would prefer the planet to remain livable rather than turn into a burning hellscape in the name of oil industry profits.
49% : However, this tax bill also opened up 1.5 million acres in ANWR to oil drilling.
44% : But it also sits atop around ten billion barrels of oil, and thus, for decades, Republicans and oil companies have been trying to drill in it.
37% : At that time, a Republican Congress passed - and President Trump signed - a bill giving huge tax breaks to the wealthy, adding $1.5 trillion to the deficit and raising taxes on the middle class.

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