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Obama Moves Put Much of Refuge Off Limits Drilling
2015-01-25 15:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: President Barack Obamas call to restrict oil exploration on 12 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge probably wont have much practical impact for an area already off-limits to drillers, though its created a new fault line with the Republican-led Congress. The White House on Sunday said it would ask Congress to designate core areas of the 19.8 million-acre refuge as wilderness, including its 1.5 million-acre coastal plain that geologists believe lies atop a rich oil reserve....
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