TIME | Congress Is About to Allow Oil Drilling in Alaska's Arctic Wildlife Refuge TIME Congress is close to lifting a 40-year-old ban on energy development in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but drilling for oil in that frozen wilderness may still be years away as the effort faces exhaustive environmental reviews and likely ... Trump moves to unlock Alaska oil Arctic Refuge Has Lots of Wildlife—Oil, Maybe Not So Much Tax Bill-Approved Arctic Drilling Will Plunder 10 Billion Barrels of Oil and Destroy One Million Acres of Wilderness |