Biden freezes late Trump-era leases awarded for ANWR

摘要

US President Joe Biden's administration has suspended leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) that were awarded towards the end of predecessor Donald Trump's term in office. On 6 January, the US Bureau of Land Management held a lease sale for acreage in ANWR, and subsequently issued 10-year leases for nine tracts covering more than 430,000 acres in total. Shortly after Biden's inauguration two weeks later, the new administration ordered the Department of the Interior to review oil and gas activity in the refuge. In a 1 June statement, the department claimed it discovered "defects in the underlying record of cecision".