Environmental groups fiercely oppose oil development on the refuge's coastal plain.
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The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
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With rising temperatures come rising lakes and rivers across the coastal plain.
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Seven months later, Congress voted to open the coastal plain to exploration.
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Local Sunnis, who call themselves the Tihama (coastal plain) resistance, also lend support.
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Oil drilling does not belong in the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge.
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Relatively little is known about how much oil lies under the coastal plain.
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Times are also tough in Arecibo, the city spreading on the coastal plain below.
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"Industry support for having access to the coastal plain has never wavered," she said.
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Beyond that, there is very little data about what lies beneath the coastal plain.
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They hope to recapture all of the coastal plain, where the Houthis have little support.
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The land is already part of New Jersey's larger Outer Coastal Plain American Viticultural Area.
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His plan had permanently restricted energy development in the 19.8-million-acre refuge's coastal plain.
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Opponents argue that drilling there would be harmful to fish and wildlife in Alaska's Coastal Plain.
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It still supports some 90,000 Yemeni forces made up of southern separatists and coastal plain fighters.
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His first interior secretary, Ken Salazar, protected 12 million acres of the Western Arctic coastal plain.
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After two hours — and a drop of nearly 8,000 feet — we reached the sandy coastal plain.
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Beginning in April, they head north, walking 400 miles to the coastal plain of the Arctic refuge.
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The one-time seismic exploration that was completed in 1985 in the coastal plain caused lasting damage.
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Simply put, the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge does not have promising oil bearing rock formations.
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The cave overlooked a coastal plain that was probably perfect for hunting, while the cave itself provided shelter.
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Snapshot: Above, mysterious rock carvings were uncovered by two amateur archaeologists on the coastal plain south of Mumbai.
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To Congress: Please defend against any efforts to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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The review will examine the impact of leasing drilling rights to companies in ANWR's 1.6 million-acre coastal plain.
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The biggest untapped onshore trove of oil in North America is believed to lie beneath the refuge's coastal plain.
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The largest untapped onshore reserve of oil in North America is believed to lie beneath the refuge's coastal plain.
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Two amateur sleuths have uncovered a collection of mysterious rock carvings on the Indian coastal plain south of Mumbai.
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They were carved out of the sand on a Peruvian coastal plain and resemble living things and other objects.
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Check out more videos from VICE: Erik Grafe : The coastal plain [in the Arctic Refuge] is also very important biologically.
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Hodeida is the last big Houthi-controlled city on the coastal plain, where the population is wary of the rebels.
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Mozambique, with a long, low-lying coastal plain that is home to more than half its population, is particularly vulnerable.
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For centuries, the Porcupine caribou herd have followed the same migratory route and calved their young in the coastal plain.
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They hope to hold a lease sale in the coastal plain by 2019, and destructive seismic testing could begin soon.
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"We didn't create the Arctic coastal plain, but I can tell you this -- we cannot re-create it," Cantwell said.
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The Porcupine caribou herd migrates to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge-Coastal Plain every year where they will give birth.
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Last December, Congress approved a measure to open the refuge's coastal plain, known as the 1002 Area, to oil exploration.
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"We will be working every step of the way to make sure that the coastal plain is protected," said Bostrom.
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Israel's "Silicon Wadi" — its vast network of high-tech companies along its coastal plain — has become a giant growth engine.
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But that changed in December, when Congress passed a tax bill that included a provision allowing drilling in ANWR's coastal plain.
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The Coastal Plain provides vital nesting habitat for hundreds of species of migratory birds from all 85033 states and six continents.
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The tax bill included a provision championed by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski that requires lease sales in the refuge coastal plain.
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Muskoxen utilize the coastal plain year around, while in winter, polar bears descend upon the plain to give birth while hibernating.
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Drilling would be limited to 1.5 million-acre coastal plain, known as the 1002 area, in the northeastern part of Alaska.
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The 1.5-million-acre coastal plain, identified in Section 1002 of the legislation, has been known since as the 1002 Area.
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The Trump administration is reversing a longstanding ban on oil exploration on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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But that may soon change as the Trump administration seeks to exploit an untapped trove of oil beneath its coastal plain.
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They typically stay well south of Atlanta, preferring the coastal plain to the Appalachian foothills in the north of the state.
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Hurricane Florence's unusually slow approach is proving a particular challenge for many of the small towns on North Carolina's coastal plain.
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It sprawls across a flat coastal plain, crisscrossed by slow-moving bayous, with clay soils that do not easily absorb water.
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Another proposal, for aerial studies that would provide some information about conditions below the surface of the coastal plain, went nowhere.
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Sullivan said Interior officials are currently in Alaska laying the groundwork for eventual drilling in the Coastal Plain area of ANWR.
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In 2010, photographer Chuck Hemard began documenting what remains of the longleaf pinelands in the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States.
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In 2010, photographer Chuck Hemard began documenting what remains of the longleaf pinelands in the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States.
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The town is difficult to take because it lies in the mountains that rise from the coastal plain where Tripoli is located.
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But in 85033, Congress set aside the small coastal plain area for possible oil and natural gas drilling, subject to legislative approval.
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But many Alaskans favor drilling in the state, and Natives who live in the coastal plain, including Inupiat, generally support oil development.
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A rush to tap the black gold of oil beneath the pristine coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the north.
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One thing Congress can do before the end of this year is to make sure exploratory seismic studies start on ANWR's coastal plain.
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The biggest untapped onshore trove of oil in North America is believed to lie beneath the refuge's coastal plain along the Beaufort Sea.
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Even at the time, many experts pointed out this would require leasing nearly every acre of the coastal plain at sky-high prices.
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The draft report had outlined several possibilities for lease sales, largely involving how much of the coastal plain would be opened to development.
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It requires the Interior Department to offer two drilling rights leases of at least 400,000 acres in ANWR's coastal plain within 10 years.
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More of the bears are making winter dens — in which pregnant females give birth to cubs — in snow drifts on the coastal plain.
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Some areas in the western Arctic, like Teshekpuk Lake, are every bit as vital biologically as the coastal plain is in the Arctic Refuge.
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Murkowski's measure would create an oil and gas drilling program on ANWR's coastal plain and require at least two lease sales within 10 years.
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The organization is calling on President Obama to protect the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) from drilling and other threats.
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When the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) was established, Congress specifically designated an area of the coastal plain—the 1002 area—for oil exploration.
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The risk extends to eastern Texas and the southeastern Coastal Plain, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in issuing its spring outlook.
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Two friends, engineers and dedicated naturalists by day, have uncovered a collection of mysterious rock carvings on the Indian coastal plain south of Mumbai.
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She knew the area well and led Masu to the edge of town where a large, empty polo stadium rose above the coastal plain.
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The coastal plain area hosts major populations of caribou, polar bears, waterbird species and seals, which conservationists say would be threatened by drilling activity.
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Bernadette Demientieff is the Executive Director of the Gwich'in Steering Committee, which is dedicated to defending the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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She engineered a provision in last December's tax overhaul bill that characterized oil exploration on the coastal plain as a way to grow federal revenues.
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The only guaranteed water for Israel's big urban centers and farms on its coastal plain is desalinated water and treated wastewater, which have chemical issues.
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Given a relatively flat coastal plain, raising water levels by only inches can make a dramatic difference on how far inland the water can travel.
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A statement from the DOI states that the area for potential drilling comprises 400,000 acres along the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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This swath of coastal plain is thought to be rich in oil and gas, and even though vast portions of the Arctic slope and coastal waters of northern Alaska are open for oil leasing and drilling, the Trump administration, and oil interests and their allies in Congress want to invade and squander this pristine area, which takes up less than 5 percent of the coastal plain.
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Still, officials warned of potentially massive flooding in the days to come, as Harvey spills a projected 15 trillion gallons of water on the coastal plain.
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In 1980, when Congress voted to conserve much of the federal land in Alaska, drilling advocates pushed for oil and gas development on the coastal plain.
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Congress set aside ANWR's coastal plain area in the 1970s for potential drilling but dictated that any drilling in the future would require congressional approval first.
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The administration is also taking steps to start energy leasing in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which was recently authorized by the Congress.
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The Gwich'in Indians of Arctic Village in the Brooks Range and the Inupiat of Kaktovik on the coastal plain depend on the animal for food and clothing.
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The Interior Department will have to identify lands in the 1.5 million acres of the refuge along the coastal plain, known as the 1002 area, for leases.
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Federal officials estimate that ANWR's Coastal Plain, which would host the drilling, has as much as 16 billion barrels of recoverable crude oil View the discussion thread.
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In 1980, when Congress created the refuge, it designated the "1002 area" as a part on the refuge's coastal plain where drilling could occur in the future.
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Moïse had trained as a water-treatment engineer, but he became convinced that the coastal plain was exceptionally fertile, and had drawn up plans for a plantation.
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THEREFORE, THE GREATEST UNCERTAINTY WITH THE SNOWFALL AMOUNTS RESIDE ON THE NORTHERN EDGE OF PRECIP SHIELD (FROM I-78 NORTHWARD) AND IN THE COASTAL PLAIN DUE TO POTENTIALMIXING.
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"The storm system will move to the northeast, up across the coastal plain of the southeast U.S. and will bring beneficial rains across the entire region," Orrison said.
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Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee chairwoman Lisa Murkowski has scheduled a hearing Thursday on opening the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration.
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In 1980, Congress expanded it and left open the door to potential drilling in the coastal plain, but dictated that lawmakers would have to act to approve it.
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" On Tuesday, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will hold a hearing titled: "The Need to Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain.
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I commend the President for giving Alaskans a voice again in how their public lands are used and for his commitment to responsible development of the Coastal Plain.
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From a biological standpoint, the coastal plain is the most important part of the Refuge, yet that's where the initial planning process for industrial oil drilling is happening.
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The site, the famed Nazca Lines, is a sprawling series of images scratched into the surface of a coastal plain about 225 miles south of Lima, the capital.
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Many feared a reprise of Hurricane Matthew, which spared much of the shoreline from severe damage only to deluge small towns in North Carolina's river-veined coastal plain.
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I commend the President for giving Alaskans a voice again in how their public lands are used and for his commitment to responsible development of the Coastal Plain.
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"Clearly a Southerner, clearly a North Carolinian and clearly a foothills rather than a Piedmont or Coastal Plain guy," said Walt Wolfram, a sociolinguist at North Carolina State.
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Long term: The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will be open to oil drilling, giving companies a chance to tap would could be huge hydrocarbon resources.
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Of the alternatives, two would exclude one-third of the 1.5 million acres of the coastal plain from any lease sales, while the other two would have no exclusions.
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With the recent announcement that the Interior Department is trying to open the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge to seismic exploration, I must share what I witnessed there.
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The Porcupine herd leaves the coastal plain in July shortly after calving season and heads east and south back to its fall and wintering areas — approximately 400 miles away.
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Industrializing the wild coastal plain in northern Alaska, a move authorized by a sneaky rider in the GOP tax cut bill, has long been strongly opposed by most Americans.
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It lived on the coastal plain of a large inland sea that used to cut North America in half, at a time when this area was warm, lush, and flat.
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But control of the port would bring the coalition closer to its goal of regaining the entire coastal plain, landlocking the Houthis and giving it more leverage in peace talks.
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ALONG the road from the port city of Hodeida to Sana'a, Yemen's capital, rugged mountains rise sharply from a coastal plain, then level off, giving way to a raised plateau.
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The coastal plain hosts one of the biggest, most spectacular wildlife migrations in the world each short Arctic summer, as birds from six continents and all 50 states flock there.
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Led by women from seven communities in the northern coastal plain of Belize, CBSWC supports the conservation of black howler monkeys and baboons in the 6,123-hectare Community Baboon Sanctuary.
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There's enough in these 800,000 acres for a lifetime of exploring, the tangible result of a landscape that has borne witness to shallow sea and coastal plain and volcanic upheaval.
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The New York Times examined how, in the space of about a year, the refuge's coastal plain — known as the 133 Area — went from off-limits to open for business.
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The northern part of the refuge, 1.5 million acres of the Arctic coastal plain known as the 1002 Area, is thought to overlie billions of barrels of oil and gas.
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Gharyan is strategic because it is the last town before a coastal plain, and a base for fighters to fall back to if a battle for the capital drags on.
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The postponement will have no direct impact on the Interior Department's plan to open the coastal plain, 1.5 million acres known as the 1002 Area, to oil and gas development.
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She deserves dishonorable mention nonetheless, for slipping a provision into the Senate tax bill that would open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the oil companies.
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The quake Sunday was south of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, which Congress opened to drilling last year as part of a tax bill advocated by President Donald Trump.
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The bill, which a similar group of lawmakers have introduced in previous sessions of Congress, would designate refuge's 1.5 million-acre coastal plain as wilderness, preventing drilling and most other development.
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By requiring a floor on what companies must pay to lease a piece of the Arctic Refuge's fragile coastal plain, this provision holds the Trump administration accountable to its own promises.
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Arctic loons still called near our camp on Last Lake, and caribou continued to meander across the coastal plain as we floated first the Canning and then the Hula Hula Rivers.
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Congress in 20173 had set aside millions of acres in northeast Alaska for wildlife, lands that were largely off the beaten path, geographically and politically, and included the refuge's coastal plain.
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A draft environmental impact statement on the coastal plain leasing plan is expected to be released soon, with the finished version to follow next spring, just a year after being ordered.
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A separate, and less rigorous, environmental review of a proposal to conduct seismic surveys in the coastal plain to pinpoint oil and gas reserves is still not complete, Mr. Balash said.
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But efforts to open the refuge's coastal plain, known as the 21 Area, foundered for years as opponents argued that exploration would irreparably harm one of the country's largest pristine landscapes.
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The deal also allowed the oil companies to pursue further exploration on Native lands within the 1002 Area, if the federal government offered leases for the rest of the coastal plain.
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The Interior Department's own documents show that officials there have altered or disregarded scientific data on drilling's impacts on imperiled wildlife, including threatened polar bears who den on the coastal plain.
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The chef and television personality Vivian Howard included a recipe in her new book "Deep Run Roots," a comprehensive, thoughtful study of the food and culture of North Carolina's coastal plain.
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The tribe historically followed caribou herds in the region, which spend part of the year on the coastal plain, but have faced increasing pressure as average temperatures in the region have risen.
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Prepare not to be shocked: As the executive director of the Sierra Club, I believe that opening the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling is a terrible idea.
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The bill, which a similar group of lawmakers have introduced in previous sessions of Congress, would designate the refuge's 85033 million-acre coastal plain as wilderness, preventing drilling and most other development.
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The provision laughably authorized oil and gas development in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska as a partial offset to the tax bill's big price tag.
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While the advance has looked fast, so far Haftar's force has mainly crossed sparsely populated areas after taking Gharyan, the last town in the mountains before the road descends to a coastal plain.
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GOP control of Washington means ANWR drilling advocates are closer opening the coastal plain of the refuge to drilling than at any time since the mid-2000s, when an effort fell just short.
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Last year, President Obama showed great leadership by releasing a Comprehensive Conservation Plan that for the first time called for the permanent protection of all of the Arctic Refuge, including the Coastal Plain.
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Generations of my people, the Gwich'in, have sought to protect the Coastal Plain, so that all the animals that live and migrate to this area will have a safe place in our world.
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It has myriad financial interests in the state's oil-rich North Slope region, which includes the refuge's coastal plain and Prudhoe Bay, home to one of the largest oil fields in North America.
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The role of A.S.R.C., a private company that counts 13,000 Alaska Natives as it shareholders, has become a flash point in the debate between Native communities over the fate of the coastal plain.
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Also in December, the department released an environmental-impact statement that would open all or part of the 1.5 million-acre coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to leasing and exploration.
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CreditCreditKatie Orlinsky for The New York Times ANCHORAGE — Working through two winters in the biting arctic cold, roustabouts bored three miles deep into the coastal plain of northeast Alaska in search of oil.
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After decades of efforts by Alaskans, the oil industry and Republicans, it for the first time allowed drilling in ANWR's small coastal plain, subject to the same environmental rules as other federal land areas.
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Under the initial proposal that passed the Senate, the Interior Department would be required to hold at least two auctions for drilling rights leases in ANWR's Coastal Plain area in the next 10 years.
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The fate of the refuge's coastal plain is in the hands of Ryan Zinke, the Interior secretary, who has appointed top deputies with deep professional and political ties to Alaska to oversee its development.
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"It seems as though the administration is in a headlong rush to put the drill bit into the coastal plain," said David J. Hayes, a deputy Interior secretary in the Obama and Clinton administrations.
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As early as Thursday, with Mr. Zinke and the rest of the administration cheering from the sidelines, the Senate could vote on opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's oil-rich coastal plain for drilling.
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L. 6900-2628), directed the Department of the Interior (DOI) to hold two oil and gas lease sales that offer up at least 28503,22019 acres in the Coastal Plain for development within seven years.
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The topographic setting where this soil formed (if that's indeed what it is) was a narrow coastal plain with braided streams tucked between a continental shelf and some mountains, the authors write in the study.
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The 1.5 million-acre coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge is widely recognized as the biological heart of the refuge and is as important to our nation's natural heritage as Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.
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Big-name oil companies have been largely absent from the public discussions about tapping oil reserves on the coastal plain, but a lesser-known company called Arctic Slope Regional Corporation has taken a leading role.
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Having already won the mother of all earmarks — a provision in the tax bill authorizing drilling on the sensitive coastal plain of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge – Murkowski can hardly claim to have been neglected.
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Most famously it is the birthing ground for the massive Porcupine caribou herd, migrating 400 miles each spring to raise newborn calves on the area's coastal plain, the very place Republicans just opened to drilling.
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The coastal plain is thought to overlie formations containing billions of barrels of oil, and the Trump administration has been eager to allow development, part of its push for more commercial activities on federal lands.
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In most cases, he said, Hamas would begin firing on areas closer to Gaza and then, depending on the Israeli response, build up to targeting the densely populated commercial hub of central Israel's coastal plain.
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Recently, House Democrats, many who have never even stepped foot in Alaska, voted to reverse the progress we made under the 2017 tax bill to open the 1002 Area of ANWR's Coastal Plain to oil exploration.
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In their native language, the coastal plain is "the sacred place where life begins," and scarring it with roads, wells and pipelines would be both a cultural abomination and a legitimate threat to the caribou herd.
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Mr. Balash, who oversees the bureau, said each of the four proposed alternatives had "built-in protections" for the coastal plain, known as the 1002 Area, where the migrating porcupine caribou herd goes to give birth.
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Since Congress approved a measure last December to open the coastal plain to oil exploration, the Department of the Interior has been charging ahead with a plan to sell drilling leases as early as next year.
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The bill is a major, long-sought victory for Alaskan lawmakers and other backers of opening the ANWR's coastal plain, who say developing the area will help boost the state's economy and further boost U.S. energy security.
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The threats have not abated, particularly here in South Carolina's low-lying coastal plain, where the Waccamaw River set a record on Friday and will keep rising into the new week, threatening neighborhoods, infrastructure and lives anew.
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The report keeps the Interior Department on track to auction leases for the right to drill in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before the end of the year, a long-stated administration goal.
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But a 2017 tax bill passed by Congress and signed by Trump included a mandate for oil leasing in the coastal plain of ANWR and directed the Interior Department to hold a lease sale within four years.
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The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the federally owned refuge's coastal plain, the only area that would be open for drilling, could have up to 28503 billion barrels of oil, though it hasn't updated the assessment in years.
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The vast and environmentally pristine coastal plain, wedged between the Beaufort Sea and Brooks Range mountains, is prized for its importance to caribou, polar bears and other wildlife but is believed to hold billions of barrels of oil.
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Unfortunately, instead of taking action to address this problem and to protect our communities, the Trump administration is rushing to make it even worse by opening up the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling.
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Mr. Bernhardt had represented Alaska in litigation against the federal government, including an unsuccessful lawsuit in 2014 that sought a review of the state's plan for exploring oil and gas resources within the coastal plain of the refuge.
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Pregnant bears dig winter dens in the snow on the coastal plain, and if those dens are not detected during the seismic work, the mothers and their newborn cubs could be disturbed or endangered by the heavy trucks.
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The four possible plans, which would determine what parts of the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could be opened to drilling, were included in a draft environmental report prepared by the Bureau of Land Management.
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He was doing a brief tour of about two dozen figures, a sampling of 2000 or so all etched into a hard, pitted rock called laterite that is common on the coastal plain that borders the Arabian Sea.
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Moreover, they say, climate change has already led to significant changes in the area, like polar bears that are now more active on the coastal plain than ever before, because the sea ice they rely on is receding.
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Not only should the new line reduce road congestion, government officials believe it could also boost Jerusalem's economy by encouraging people based in and around Tel Aviv, on Israel's coastal plain, to work and relocate to the city.
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The refuge's coastal plain, which has the largest concentration of land-based polar bear dens in the United States and is a calving ground for the Porcupine caribou herd, would be forever lost to an industrial oil field.
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The UAE has massed thousands of Yemeni forces — drawn from southern separatists, local units from the Red Sea coastal plain and a battalion led by a nephew of late former president Ali Abdullah Saleh — on the outskirts of Hodeidah.
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Murkowski's proposal harkens back to the bad old days for refuges, and even threatens to transfer management of the Arctic Refuge's Coastal Plain from the biologists at the nation's leading wildlife conservation agency to the Bureau of Land Management.
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Far from requiring exploration and recovery operations to intrude on the whole 19.6-million-acre arctic wildlife refuge, which is four times the size of Massachusetts, the coastal plain covers less than 10 percent of ANWR's total land area.
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Industrial oil development on the Arctic coastal plain outside the Refuge has negatively impacted the calving rate of herds in those areas, and scientists predict it will have a similar impact on the Porcupine Caribou herd within the Refuge.
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In 1960, Congress set aside millions of acres of land in northeast Alaska for wildlife protection, but the discovery of oil reserves around Prudhoe Bay in 1968 suggested such riches may also exist elsewhere, including under the coastal plain.
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This time the threat comes wrapped in a giant budget package that, without mentioning the coastal plain explicitly, instructs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to find $1 billion in revenue to offset the bill's giant tax cuts.
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This followed the Senate's decision last weekend to authorize oil drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an area full of wildlife, of talismanic significance to environmentalists and of great economic importance to Native Americans.
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The Fish & Wildlife Service said the ANWR Coastal Plain draft environmental impact study (EIS) failed to include oil spill response plans, analyze the effects of climate change on the Arctic, or ensure that surveys of polar bear denning habitats are required.
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The sources said UAE-backed Yemeni forces - drawn from southern separatists, local units from the Red Sea coastal plain and a battalion led by a nephew of late former president Ali Abdullah Saleh - were "at the doors" of Hodeidah airport.
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The link between fossil fuels and a warming Arctic is the key reason Thompson opposes oil drilling in a 1.5 million acre coastal plain of the ANWR known as the 1002 area - but change is afoot with Washington rolling back protections.
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But to get to that number, companies would have to bid an average of $2,400 per acre on every acre of the Coastal Plain, or more than 85033 times the average of $168 per acre they paid on Alaska's North Slope.
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The corporation, one of 13 formed in the 1970s to foster economic development among Alaska's indigenous population, stands to enjoy a windfall from oil development, in part because it separately owns rights to drill on 92,000 acres within the coastal plain.
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When Congress established the refuge in 1980, it deferred action on the issue of whether oil and gas exploration should be allowed in part of it: 251 million acres of coastal plain between the Brooks Range and the Beaufort Sea.
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In Fair Bluff, one of the small towns on North Carolina's coastal plain inundated two years ago during Hurricane Matthew, construction was to begin in the coming months on storm-damaged houses that had been federally approved for rebuilding or elevation.
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Especially vulnerable, they say, is the region's population of polar bears, which is already in decline because of sea-ice loss related to climate change, and the large migrating herd of caribou that uses the coastal plain as a calving area.
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The administration, undoing decades of environmental protections in the 19-million acre refuge, plans to sell drilling leases in a part of it known as the 1002 Area, which is 1.5 million acres of the coastal plain by the Beaufort Sea.
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"Alaskans are largely supportive of oil and natural gas development in the state, and studies have shown the ANWR coastal plain holds the largest undeveloped conventional oil resources to be found in the U.S.," said American PetroleuM Institute spokeswoman Brooke Sammon.
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Under current legislation, opening the coastal plain of ANWR to oil development would be limited by law to a footprint of 2,000 acres out of the 19 million-acre refuge — or one ten-thousandth of the refuge's total land mass.
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The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a notice Thursday that it is starting the "scoping" process for an environmental review to examine the impact of leasing drilling rights to companies in ANWR's 1.6 million-acre coastal plain.
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A video display features the diverse focuses of NYBG scientists, whether Jessica Allen's investigation into how climate change is impacting lichen distribution in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain or Ina Vandebroek's connections with Caribbean immigrants in New York who have medical plant knowledge.
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The Republican-led Senate is trying to open up the 1002 region on the coastal plain of the ANWR, a region inhabited by Gwich'in natives, caribou herds, polar bears and millions of birds that migrate to six of the world's seven continents.
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Next phase of ANWR battle set: Last night Senate Energy and Natural Resources chairwoman Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, announced that the committee would mark up legislation next Wednesday to authorize oil exploration on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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If developed, the oil projected to be in the coastal plain would create the climate emissions equivalent to 898 coal plants or 776 million cars, adding to the problem of climate change when we should be moving in exactly the opposite direction.
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In 2017, a Republican-controlled Congress passed a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to allow oil drilling in the Arctic sanctuary's Coastal Plain, a strip of land that hosts more diversity of life than nearly anywhere else in the Arctic.
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Since the current boundaries of the refuge were established by an act of Congress in 13, there has been a debate over whether oil and gas exploration should be allowed in a portion of the area, 1.5 million acres on the coastal plain.
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In 2017, with Republicans in control of the White House, the Senate and the House, Congress included a section in a tax bill establishing a plan to sell leases in the coastal plain, billing it as a revenue generator for the federal treasury.
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The epicenter also lies near an area the U.S. Interior Department plans to lease for petroleum exploration along ANWR's coastal plain, which had been off-limits to fossil fuel development until a provision was enacted as part of President Donald Trump's 2017 tax bill.
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The military said its soldiers had been pursuing several Palestinians who were trying to hit Israeli cars on Route 443, a highway that cuts through the West Bank as it connects Jerusalem with Israel's densely populated coastal plain, injuring three civilians, including a pregnant woman.
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But toward the end of 2017, Congressional Republicans snuck a rider opening up the Arctic Refuge for drilling into the budget, and now the Trump administration is pushing to sell off the coastal plain to the oil and gas industry as fast as possible.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - There will be no seismic exploration this winter on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Interior Department said on Friday, after the company seeking permission to conduct the tests ran out of time to get the required permit.
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The tax bill passed by Congress contains language pushed by Murkowski and supported by President Donald Trump to hold two lease sales in the 1.5 million-acre (600,000-hectare) 10.33 area on the northern coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR.
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On top of that, the 197,85033-strong Porcupine Caribou herd (so named for the Porcupine River along its migration route) travels to the coastal plain to give birth to calves in relative safety from insects and predators, and to obtain the nourishment necessary to migrate south again.
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Because the secretary of Interior is in charge of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the Arctic Refuge and other National Wildlife Refuges, a Palin appointment would put the fragile tundra of the Arctic Coastal Plain directly in the cross hairs of the oil industry.
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Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska and the head of the Senate energy panel, has been pushing a measure in the U.S. tax bill that would open a portion of the refuge on the coastal plain to two lease sales in 10 years for drilling.
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Mr. Netanyahu apparently preferred a speedy cease-fire over the alternative — a stronger and more sustained Israeli bombing campaign, the likelihood of longer-range rockets from Gaza reaching further into Israel's densely populated coastal plain and the risk of sliding into an unwanted, full-scale conflict.
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In the late 1990s, using an updated analysis of the seismic data and other research, the United States Geological Survey estimated there could be up to 11 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the coastal plain, equivalent to about 18 months of consumption in the United States.
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