"Both Alaska senators are lobbying the Interior Department to limit new offshore drilling in the Arctic."
"Alaska’s Republican senators are splitting with the Trump administration over an expansive offshore lease plan that would open large swaths of the state’s waters to drilling.
Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan have both contacted the Interior Department after it proposed a new five-year lease schedule that would mandate 21 sales in Alaska waters, as well as expanded drilling in the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico, also known as the Gulf of America.
The duo is particularly concerned with plans to drill in the Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, Bering Strait and High Arctic, which the U.S. has recently claimed. They want the administration to instead focus on expanding drilling in Cook Inlet, in southern Alaska."
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