By wiping out the environmental guardrails, Congress reopened one of the planet’s last great wilderness regions to oil and gas development, a move that could destabilize one its largest carbon stores.

By Carl David Goette-Luciak

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday to strike down protections against oil drilling in some of the most diverse ecosystems and wildest lands left in North America. The resolution passed relatively quietly, but the bill will have an enormous impact on millions of acres in northern Alaska, the subject of a decades-long fight over conservation and drilling in the Arctic.

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