Earthjustice: Western Arctic Lease Sale Auctions Off More Than a Million Acres of Ecologically Sensitive Lands for Oil and Gas Drilling
March 19, 2026
March 19, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 19 -- Earthjustice issued the following news release on March 18, 2026:
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Western Arctic Lease Sale Auctions Off More than a Million Acres of Ecologically Sensitive Lands for Oil and Gas Drilling
Vast natural areas, long protected from extraction, were included in 187 tracts that oil and gas companies bid on for oil development
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Anchorage, AK -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced res . . .
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Western Arctic Lease Sale Auctions Off More than a Million Acres of Ecologically Sensitive Lands for Oil and Gas Drilling
Vast natural areas, long protected from extraction, were included in 187 tracts that oil and gas companies bid on for oil development
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Anchorage, AK -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced res . . .
