Despite Shutdown, Trump Administration Continued Effort To Expand Alaska Oil Drilling

January 11, 2019btollesonRSS Sample

Drilling at the Conoco-Phillips Carbon location in the National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska.

The Bureau of Land Management has gone ahead with a series of public meetings on its effort to expand oil development in the 22-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

(Image credit: Judy Patrick/AP)