Three White House Cabinet officials plan to visit Alaska this week to open oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and push forward a natural gas project that has stalled for several years.
Department of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin will make the voyage, several months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to surge oil and gas drilling, mining, and logging in America’s northernmost state.
There are also ongoing negotiations on tariffs with key Asian countries that could see the administration leveraging investments in the anticipated Alaska liquefied natural gas project....
