"Tucked into the Trump administration's assessment on the first oil and gas leasing program for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is a blunt denial that there's a "climate crisis."
In the environmental impact statement — the Bureau of Land Management's detailed look at how oil and gas drilling would affect air and water quality, wildlife habitat, and other natural resources — the agency writes that civilization has thrived in prior warm periods of the Earth's history.
Its reference to a "climate crisis" is tucked into the document's appendix, where BLM responds to public criticisms — in this case, to one by the Trustees for Alaska, a group that had argued against oil and gas leasing in ANWR in public comments, saying it would prolong the use of fossil fuels that when burned increase emissions of greenhouse gases."
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