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Fears for polar bears as the Trump administration pushes ahead with oil drilling in Alaskan refuge
Drilling had been banned in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for decades before Republican-led tax legislation signed by Donald Trump in 2017 removed the ban.
The administration of US President Donald Trump on Monday proposed allowing companies searching for oil and gas deposits in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to disrupt polar bears living there.
- SBS News
The so-called “incidental harassment authorisation” proposed by the …