Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy is requesting President-elect Donald Trump to immediately overturn the Biden administration's environmental and tribal lands policies in Alaska, arguing that they negatively impact the state's economy. In a letter to Trump, Dunleavy proposes a series of executive orders, including lifting restrictions on oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the National Petroleum Reserve, reinstating federal support for a road through the Brooks Range foothills, and reversing the ban on new roads in Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest.
The Canning River, seen here in 2018, flows from the Brooks Range into the Beaufort Sea along the western edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The sole tract that Regenerate Alaska acquired in the 2021 lease sale — and has now relinquished, lies along the Canning River.
“It is essential that the Alaska specific Executive Order be issued as soon as President Trump takes office. The Biden Administration’s assault on Alaska was carried out through a multitude of official agency actions; reversal of these actions must comply with time-consuming administrative procedures,” said Dunleavy’s policy document, titled “Alaska priorities for federal transition.”
Jeff Turner, Dunleavy’s communications director, said Biden’s presidency harmed Alaska, nonetheless. “The dozens of sanctions it has placed on Alaska are strangling future economic growth and denying the state the ability to support itself with revenue and jobs created by developing our natural resources,” Turner said by email.
“We’re definitely going to be providing pushback to the wish list,” said Matt Jackson, Alaska state senior manager for The Wilderness Society.“Legality is not necessarily a top priority for either of these leaders. We may be seeing more and more illegal rollbacks, law be damned,” Jackson said. “We’re prepared.”Dunleavy asked the Trump team to schedule a second Arctic National Wildlife Refuge lease sale, to follow the 2021 sale that failed to result in any exploration.
The latest dispute over land-in-trust concerns a parcel in downtown Juneau that the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes is seeking to be put into trust status. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleasonin June that Interior does have the right to grant trust status for land parcels, though she said the process used by Tlingit and Haida had flaws and that the application should be resubmitted.
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