{"id":368298,"date":"2020-08-18T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=368298"},"modified":"2020-08-18T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T05:00:16","slug":"trump-administration-approves-oil-drilling-in-alaska-wildlife-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/trump-administration-approves-oil-drilling-in-alaska-wildlife-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration approves oil drilling in Alaska wildlife refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : The Trump administration on Monday finalized a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska&#8217;s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, putting it on track to issue decades-long leases in the pristine wilderness area before a potential change in US leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The 19 million acre (7.7 million hectares) refuge is home to wildlife populations including Porcupine caribou and polar bears and has been off-limits to drilling for decades.<\/p>\n<p>But a Republican-passed tax bill in 2017 opened the area to oil and gas leasing, a key pillar of US President Donald Trump&#8217;s energy agenda to expand fossil fuel production on public lands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : The Trump administration on Monday finalized a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska&#8217;s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, putting it on track to issue decades-long leases in the pristine wilderness area before a potential change in US leadership. The 19 million acre (7.7 million hectares) refuge is home to wildlife populations including Porcupine caribou and polar bears and has been off-limits to drilling for decades. But a Republican-passed tax bill in 2017 opened the area to oil and gas leasing, a key pillar of US President Donald Trump&#8217;s energy agenda to expand fossil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}