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NEGATIVE Climate 119th Congress

S.J.Res.80 CRA: Alaska Western Arctic Drilling

Overturns protections against oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Western Arctic (119th Congress)

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Legal & Constitutional Grounding

FLPMA authorizes BLM land protections; drilling threatens documented ecological resources and indigenous subsistence rights.

43 U.S.C. § 1701 et seq. — FLPMA: BLM authority to manage federal lands including NPR-A
  • DOI: National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska protections safeguard indigenous subsistence rights
  • 16 U.S.C. § 3101 et seq. — ANILCA protections

CRA to block Western Arctic protections. The protections safeguard documented ecological resources and indigenous subsistence rights in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.