Trump administration seeks to revoke limits on oil drilling in parts of Alaska’s North Slope

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on Thursday that it will revoke three documents intended to form the basis for limits on oil drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

Those documents, and the limits themselves, were issued in the last year of President Joe Biden’s administration. 

Since his election, President Donald Trump has prioritized administrative moves that would reverse Biden decisions limiting oil and gas drilling in Alaska.

The latest move targets the Biden administration’s decision to prioritize subsistence hunting and fishing and traditional Indigenous uses in about 3 million acres of the 23-million-acre petroleum reserve that lies west of Prudhoe Bay...