UPDATE: Trump rescinds Obama’s ‘permanent’ Arctic leasing ban

Map of Obama Arctic withdrawal area. (Map: BOEM)UPDATE: 10:02 a.m. on April 28, 2017
President Trump signed an order Friday morning rolling back restrictions President Obama imposed late last year on offshore oil leasing in the Arctic. The entire Alaska delegation was at the White House for the signing, and Trump gave Sen. Lisa Murkowski the pen.
ORIGINAL POST:
President Trump is expected to sign an order Friday aimed at lifting his predecessor’s ban on new oil leasing in waters