Trump Plans to Restart Oil Drilling in Alaska Arctic Refuge (1)

Donald Trump told Senate Republicans Thursday he would restart oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, reversing a move by the Biden administration to cancel leases in the frozen wilderness.

“He said ‘We’ll get back to that,’” Senator Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican, told reporters after emerging from a closed-door meeting with Trump and other Republican senators. “He opened it up, and Biden closed it down, and he said when we get back we’ll get it back open.”

Congress under Trump lifted a 40-year-old ban on energy development in the refuge in 2017, mandating lease sales in an ...