Don Young: “That money is not there. That money is for transportation.”

We therefore firmly believe that a 45-day comment period will allow all stakeholders and the general public more than enough time to review the SEIS and provide meaningful comment.

We have learned firsthand that resource development and protection of the environment are not mutually exclusive goals.

Congress authorized the leasing and development program within the 1002 Area of ANWR not on a whim, but after decades of robust debate.

When the tribe asked Congressman Don Young to cosponsor the bill years ago, he looked me in the eye and said, so the landowners get resolved, the tribe still has to prove its case, are you sure that is what you want? I said, yes, sir, it…