WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management issued the following press release:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management is taking a major step toward unleashing Alaska's energy potential by opening a 60-day public comment period on a new proposal to streamline oil and gas permitting in Alaska. The proposed rule aims to cut red tape and accelerate infrastructure development across the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska - driving forward American Energy Dominance following a formal petition from the Alaska Oil and Gas Association.
The proposed rule is informed by the Alaska Oil and Gas Association's petition and builds on decades of extensive analysis that the BLM has co...