on Friday safeguarded millions of acres in Alaska from fossil fuel drilling and mining — the latest in a frenzy of environmental actions in recent weeks that have drawn praise from green groups and condemnation from industry and Republican lawmakers.that bars oil and gas development across more than 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve on Alaska’s North Slope.
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