The Biden administration plans to sell drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge less than two weeks before President-elect
Under the decision issued Monday, the Interior Department will put just 400,000 acres (161,870 hectares) of the refuge’s nearly 1.6 million acre coastal plain available on the auction block on Jan. 9 — the smallest amount possible under federal law. The auction is one of two sales Congress mandated in 2017 as a way to pay for tax ...
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