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Alaska's oil revival sparks a new energy rush Into the Arctic

Driven by new geological discoveries in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and favorable regulatory rollbacks under the Trump administration, Alaska's Arctic oil sector is experiencing a major revival, with major global energy firms winning lease bids, launching new production projects, and reversing decades of output decline that once risked shutting down the Trans Alaska Pipeline System. The boom faces pushback from environmental groups and some Indigenous Alaskan communities concerned about greenhouse gas emissions, ecosystem damage, and disruption to traditional subsistence livelihoods.