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A new effort is underway to find how much oil is beneath Alaska’s Arctic refuge, petroleum reserve

By Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News August 22, 2017

Spurred by a president who wants oil companies to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, federal geologists have begun poking around the controversial Alaska coastal plain, collecting oil-soaked rocks to help update the area’s petroleum potential.

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