WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is boosting protection of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and will ask Congress to designate more than 12 million acres as a wilderness area, including its potentially oil-rich Coastal Plain....
By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press
Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:47pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is boosting protection of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and will ask Congress to designate more than 12 million acres as a wilderness area, including its potentially oil-rich Coastal Plain....