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How Obama let big oil drill in the pristine Alaska wilderness
2015-12-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: From his seat in the small plane flying over the largest remaining swath of American wilderness, Bruce Babbitt thought he could envision the legacy of one of his proudest achievements as Interior secretary in the Clinton administration. Babbitt was returning in the summer of 2013 from four sunlit nights in Alaska's western Arctic, where at one point his camp was nearly overrun by a herd of caribou that split around the tents at the last minute. Now, below him, Babbitt saw an oil field-one carefully...
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