The Trump administration on Wednesday found few takers at its sale of drilling leases in a pristine Arctic wildlife refuge, with an Alaska state agency emerging as the sole bidder for most of the acreage. The sale’s weak results were sure to be a disappointment to Alaska’s decades-long effort to open up drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to attract jobs and boost the state’s waning oil production. Delivering the sale just two weeks before leaving office was one of President Donald Trump’s last-minute efforts to expand fossil fuel and mineral development in the United States. Trump’s successor, President-elect Joe Biden, has pledged to protect ANWR and to ban new oil and gas leasing on federal lands. Environmental […]