ICYMI: WSJ Editorial Highlights Trump’s ‘Unleashing Alaska’ Executive Order
‘Mr. Biden treated America’s largest state worse than he did Iran’
WASHINGTON—The Wall Street Journal published an editorial recently highlighting President Trump’s Alaska-specific executive order (EO) rescinding a number of the Biden administration’s 70 executive orders and actions targeting Alaska, which amounted to an “assault” on Alaska’s economy, and reinstating many policies and actions of the first Trump administration. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who worked closely with the Trump administration on this executive order, thanked President Trump for recognizing Alaska as a great strategic asset for the country and for sending the message to Alaskans, the rest of the country, and the world that unleashing Alaska’s energy and resources will be a top priority of his administration.
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Editorial: Trump Lifts Sanctions on Alaska
His executive order reverses Biden’s plan to make the state a natural museum.
By: The Editorial Board
January 24, 2025
Speaking of sanctions (see nearby), one of President Trump’s good deeds this week was lifting Joe Biden’s economic punishment for Alaska. Mr. Biden treated America’s largest state worse than he did Iran. Mr. Trump on Monday signed an executive order to unlock the Last Frontier State’s “extraordinary resource potential.”
That potential has been under wraps since Mr. Biden’s first day in office when he targeted the state with no fewer than six executive orders taking aim at drilling, roadbuilding and hunting.
Over his term, he suspended and stymied Congressionally mandated lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, blocked oil and gas development in nearly half the National Petroleum Reserve, banned drilling in the northern Bering Sea, canceled lease sales in the Cook Inlet, slapped a roadless rule on millions of acres of forest, choked off mining projects, and denied Alaska Native veterans promised land allotments. Alaska’s GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan counts 70 Biden assaults on the state’s economy.
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Progressives want Alaska to be a natural museum untouched by humans. But the people who live in the state know that resource development is compatible with environmental stewardship. They also have the most to lose if the land is despoiled. Mr. Trump’s order seeks to restore this policy balance that Mr. Biden tried to erase.
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