photo via flickr Fridays in Washington D.C. are often days in which bad news is dumped. The idea is that the news will get lost over the weekend while Americans are recharging for the week ahead. So maybe that’s why the Interior Department announced Friday that they will offer oil and gas leases on 1.8 million acres of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, a ecologically sensitive area important for bird migration. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Obama Administration Opens Up 1.8 million Acres Of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve