Energy groups celebrate Trump's latest move to unleash Alaska drilling

Conservative energy leaders are celebrating President Donald Trump's latest effort to unleash American drilling. 

The Department of the Interior announced a proposal Monday to rescind President Joe Biden's restrictions on oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. 

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said a Biden-era 2024 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rule that restricted energy development for more than half of the 23 million acres on Alaska’s North Slope ignored the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976. 

"The National Petroleum Reserve (NPR), created by Congress over a century ago to secure America’s energy supply, supports responsible oil development on 13 million acres," Frank Lasee, pre...