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New Proposal to Protect Alaskan Wilderness Most Sweeping in Decades

2015-01-25 15:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: No president in 35 years has made as sweeping a conservation proposal as President Barack Obama did today by urging Congress to transform the oil-laden coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge into what would be the largest wilderness area in the nation's history. The president's move to designate 12.3 million acres of new wilderness would block decades of efforts to drill for oil on a 1.5-million-acre portion of the refuge. That coastal region is thought to contain up to 10.3-billion...

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