President Donald Trump's expansive executive order aimed at boosting oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in Alaska is being cheered by state political leaders who see new fossil fuel development as critical to Alaska's economic future and criticized by environmental groups that see the proposals as worrying in the face

A sweeping executive order signed by President Donald Trump during the first hours of his second term aims to boost Alaska’s natural resource industry by reversing environmental protections that limit oil and gas extraction, logging, and other development projects across the state.

An executive order signed Monday by President Donald Trump reversed a swath of Biden administration moves in the state.

President Donald Trump's executive order to boost oil drilling, mining, and logging in Alaska was met with enthusiasm by some state leaders and worry by environmental groups.

So we’re opening up ANWR,” Trump said at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. The order calls for new leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and much more. It covers nearly every major land-use controversy in Alaska this century.

In the first few hours of his second presidency, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that could pave the way for oil drilling in North Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the last great wildernesses left in the US.