ANWR Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-10-19 — Marine Mammals; Incidental Take of Polar Bears and Pacific Walruses in the Beaufort Sea and North Slope of Alaska: cross-connection with beaufort-sea-polar-bear-walrus-incidental-take: Oil and gas activity on the ANWR coastal plain falls within the North Slope geography covered by this FWS incidental-take rule for polar bears and walruses. (novelty: 2)
- 2013-02-27 — Energy Production and Project Delivery Act of 2013: 2013 — Energy Production and Project Delivery Act of 2013 (introduced) would have opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain to oil and gas leasing as part of a broader offshore/onshore leasing acceleration package; bill was referred and did not advance. (novelty: 3)