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And Biden has formally placed conservation on equal footing with mining and livestock grazing:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/climate/alaska-drilling-ban-biden-climate/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/19/biden-alaska-oil-gas-restrictions

Biden’s conservation moves follow in the path of other presidents seeking reelection. George H.W. Bush placed a moratorium on oil drilling off the Atlantic coast after I was the first journalist to report about plans to drill off the Virginia-Maryland coast and tourism officials expressed strong opposition.

Several Alaska Native tribes, including the Gwich’in, oppose oil drilling: