Hunh. The Trump administration's big play to auction off Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to fossil fuel companies ... was a total bust.
No major companies bid. Only 72,000 acres out of 689,000 were sold.
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The sale of 72,000 acres in leases is nonetheless a step toward extraction in the wilderness home to caribou and polar bears.