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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Oliver Milman

US government halts Trump-era plan to approve mining road in Alaska

The Glenn Highway near Palmer, Alaska. The department said it would conduct a new environmental analysis of the plan.
The Glenn Highway near Palmer, Alaska. The department said it would conduct a new environmental analysis of the plan. Photograph: Bill Roth/AP

The Biden administration has halted a Trump-era plan to approve a mining road in Alaska that would cut through indigenous land and alter one of the last roadless wildernesses in the US.

The construction of the Ambler Road in northwest Alaska was permitted under Donald Trump over the objections from some native American groups, allowing the laying of 211 miles of road through the traditional homelands of the Koyukon, Tanana Athabascans and Iñupiat peoples.

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