The Biden administration is delaying a decision about whether to allow Alaska to build a 211-mile road to a contentious copper and critical minerals mining area in the Brooks Range until 2024, according to a legal status update filed Friday.
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management will delay its final decision on the Ambler Industrial Access Project by up to six months to the second quarter of 2024, according to the filing.
The Ambler Road project would cross federal lands and a national preserve, and it is vehemently opposed by environmental groups and some Alaska Native tribes. It would ...
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