Biden’s Ban SHREDDED In One Move – Trump Signs NEW Order

Trump’s new Arctic drilling surge is poised to rewrite America’s energy map and bury the last remnants of Biden’s anti‑development agenda in Alaska.

Story Snapshot

Trump’s team is rolling back Biden’s 2024 protections in Alaska’s Western Arctic to reopen vast oil and gas acreage.
ANWR’s 1.5‑million‑acre coastal plain is being reopened for multiple lease sales over the next decade.
Offshore rules in the Arctic seas are being rewritten to strip out what regulators call “unnecessary, burdensome” restrictions.
These moves are central to Trump’s “Unleash Alaska” push for energy security and American strength against Russia.

Trump’s ‘Unleash Alaska’ Agenda Targets Biden-Era Arctic Roadblocks

President Trump’s second-term “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential” order did exactly what many conservatives demanded for years: it told federal agencies to stop treating Alaska like a museum and start treating it like strategic energy infrastructure. That directive explicitly targeted the Biden team’s maze of restrictions on oil, gas, and mining across state and federal lands, including vast Arctic tracts that hold significant domestic production potential. For readers tired of imported energy and green lecturing, this is the promised course correction.

The order is now moving from rhetoric to reality. The Interior Department is rescinding a 2024 rule that had locked down five “Special Areas” in the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, covering more than thirteen million acres of the Western Arctic. That Biden rule was sold as “maximum protection” for wildlife and habitat but functioned as a de facto ban on serious new development. Rolling it back restores the earlier, more flexible framework that allowed responsible drilling while still recognizing conservation mandates set by Congress.

NPR-A Rollback Reopens America’s Largest Untapped Public Oil Reserve

The National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, created a century ago as a naval fuel source, is the largest block of largely undeveloped public land in the country, roughly twenty‑three million acres. Under Biden, Interior layered on a 2024 rule that sharply limited leasing and new infrastructure across five Special Areas, effectively sidelining one of America’s biggest tools for long‑term energy security. Trump’s Interior is scrapping that rule and reviving his earlier, more expansive management plan to put more of the reserve back in play.

For conservatives who watched gasoline, diesel, and heating costs surge while the previous administration courted foreign suppliers, this shift matters. Opening additional NPR‑A acreage gives U.S. producers room to plan multi‑decade projects, pipelines, and facilities on federal land instead of chasing unstable overseas deals. It also aligns with Trump’s broader push to tear down what he calls weaponized regulation that choked off investment, jobs, and royalty revenue in energy states. Environmental groups are already threatening lawsuits, but the legal foundation now rests on clear statutory authority for both leasing and development.

Reopening ANWR’s Coastal Plain for Drilling and Jobs

On Alaska’s eastern side, the Trump administration has finalized a plan to reopen the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain to oil and gas development, restoring leases that Biden officials attempted to cancel. A federal judge ruled earlier this year that the Biden team lacked authority to rip up those leases, clearing the way for Interior to put the program back on track. The new plan calls for at least four lease sales over ten years across roughly 1.5 million acres of the so‑called 1002 area.

For decades, ANWR has been a symbol of the national energy fight, with environmental activists insisting the area must remain locked away forever. Yet many Alaska leaders and Iñupiat groups in Kaktovik see responsible drilling as their best shot at long‑term jobs, infrastructure, and revenue for their families. Trump’s approach respects that local voice and treats ANWR as a working landscape, not a postcard backdrops for Lower‑48 activists. Gwich’in communities and green NGOs remain opposed and are preparing new court challenges, setting up another test of how far judges will let agencies go to block lawful development.

Trump Set to Sign Off on New Arctic Drilling Surge – Climate Depot https://t.co/mL2AdN6B08

— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) December 5, 2025

Loosening Offshore Arctic Rules to Compete with Russia

Beyond onshore Alaska, Trump’s regulators at the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management are rewriting offshore rules that govern exploratory drilling in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. They argue a 2016 Obama‑era rule stacked on layers of duplicative requirements that drove up costs without improving safety. The new proposed Arctic Exploratory Drilling rule keeps core safeguards but trims what officials describe as “unnecessary, burdensome provisions” that discouraged investment.

Interior officials openly tie this move to the reality that Russia is surging forward in the Arctic, building bases and tapping seabed resources while Washington argued over climate symbolism. By streamlining permitting and clarifying expectations, Trump’s team wants American firms back in the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf, projecting strength and securing supply. The agencies highlight years of technical research and consultations with more than twenty Alaska Native and municipal entities, pushing back on claims that communities were ignored in the process.

For conservatives, the bigger picture is clear: this Arctic push is about national sovereignty, affordable energy, and ending Washington’s habit of sacrificing working‑class livelihoods to satisfy global climate conferences. Environmental litigators and bureaucrats spent years turning statutes into blunt instruments against drilling, ranching, and local self‑determination. Trump’s Alaska agenda moves the balance back toward production, infrastructure, and genuine security, while still operating inside the legal framework Congress set. The fight now shifts to the courts and the 2026 lease calendar, where we will see whether America continues reclaiming energy independence or lets activist pressure regain control.