... protect "its unique wildlife, wilderness, and recreational values." Some twenty years later, President Carter signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) which doubled the protected area to 19.8 million acres and renamed it the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. ("History of...") The major debate over this area began after the April 1978 Interior Department's report recommended full-scale oil development on ... is not to produce more, but to consume less. Only by reducing our reliance on oil - foreign and domestic - and investing in cleaner, renewable forms of powe...

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