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Trump officials open up millions of acres in Alaska to drilling and mining

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced on Monday that the government would reverse an order issued by Joe Biden in December that banned drilling in the remote 23m-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska ( NPR-A ) The order was part of a package of protections for large areas of Alaska , some elements of which the state was challenging in court when Biden left office in January .