Obama’s Alaska regs could cling long into Trump’s term

Photo by Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public MediaAs a candidate, President-elect Donald Trump said he’d liberate business by striking as much as 70 percent of federal regulations. Trump vowed to dump Obama-era policies and unleash the energy industry to produce more oil, gas and coal. It would seem like good times for natural resource extraction in Alaska. But Trump will find some policies easier to dismantle than others.
President Obama’s policies for Alaska are embedded in a variety of docum