{"id":3567,"date":"2020-11-22T14:13:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T14:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2022-05-05T14:01:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:01:36","slug":"trump-administration-in-late-push-moves-to-sell-oil-rights-in-arctic-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/trump-administration-in-late-push-moves-to-sell-oil-rights-in-arctic-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration, in Late Push, Moves to Sell Oil Rights in Arctic Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-vp77d3 epjyd6m0\">\n<div class=\"css-1baulvz\">\n<p>By <a class=\"css-brehiz e1jsehar0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/henry-fountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">Henry Fountain<\/span><\/a><time class=\"css-ld3wwf e16638kd2\" datetime=\"2020-11-16T11:59:50-05:00\"><span class=\"css-1sbuyqj e16638kd3\">, Nov. 16, 2020, New York Times<br \/>\n<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">The Trump administration on Monday announced that it would begin the formal process of selling leases to oil companies in a last-minute push to achieve its long-sought goal of allowing oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">That sets up a potential sale of leases just before Jan. 20, Inauguration Day, leaving the new administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has opposed drilling in the refuge, to try to reverse them after the fact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">\u201cThis lease sale is one more box the Trump administration is trying to check off for its oil industry allies,\u201d said Adam Kolton, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League, in a statement. \u201cBut it is disappointing that this administration until the very end has maintained such low regard for America\u2019s public lands, or the wildlife and Indigenous communities that depend on them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/16\/climate\/trump-oil-drilling-alaska.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0 Photo caption\/credit:<span class=\"css-16f3y1r e13ogyst0\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The Trump administration announced Monday it would begin selling oil leases for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.<\/span><span class=\"css-cnj6d5 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span>Christopher Miller for The New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Sign the Penn Environment petition <a href=\"https:\/\/pennenvironment.webaction.org\/p\/dia\/action4\/common\/public\/?action_KEY=41045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tell Bank of America: Don&#8217;t fund drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration on Monday announced that it would begin the formal process of selling leases to oil companies in a last-minute push to achieve its long-sought goal of allowing oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.   Sign the Penn Environment petition below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":3568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-damage-report","category-fossil-fuels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}