With budget, U.S. House inches toward ANWR

Alaska’s congressional delegation this week renewed their effort to allow development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (image courtesy U.S. Geological Survey)
A budget blueprint in the U.S. House is reviving hopes for Alaskans who want to see the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge open to oil drilling.
http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170718-02.mp3The budget plan does not actually discuss the Arctic refuge, in Alaska’s far Northeast.
It calls on the House Nat