WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass), member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) today led 60 members in the House and Senate in condemning the Trump administration's plans to auction off sacred and sensitive lands within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas companies.
The administration's push comes despite two failed lease sales that exposed drilling in the Refuge as an economic fantasy. The first sale in 2021 generated less than one percent of projected revenue, while the ...