ANCHORAGE( REUTERS)-The Biden administration may reverse a Trump-era policy that opened vast swaths of federal land in Arctic Alaska to oil development, according to documents filed in US District Court in Anchorage. The US Interior Department is examining whether it should rescind a Mr Trump-era management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska( NPR-A), an Indiana-sized land unit holding both oil and important ecological values. The move comes even as the White House acquiesced to a

Consumer prices jumped 8.3% last month from a year ago, the government said Wednesday.A federal appeals court in New Orleans, meanwhile, is considering a challenge to a moratorium on new federal leasing that Biden imposed soon after taking office in January 2021.... “ We are paying record prices for gasoline and to heat and cool our homes.... She defended Biden administration actions to scale down federal leasing, saying that industry has about 9, 000 permits that have been approved but are no

Pragmatists see Biden's climate change efforts as crucial momentum in what Sierra Club legislative director Melinda Pierce calls the" incredibly plodding, deliberative pace of administrative rulemaking." But more progressive groups like the Sunrise Movement see it differently.... TASS via Getty Images President Joe Biden speaks at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Nov.... Experts warn that the political outlook for the coming year may shrink Biden's window for a legislative vi