Sullivan Blasts Biden Orders Targeting Blue Collar Jobs and Energy Sector

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U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) rebuked President Joe Biden on the floor of the Senate yesterday after the new administration issued a series of orders and regulatory reviews targeting Alaska and other resource development states, the energy sector, and thousands of blue collar American jobs. The actions taken by the Biden administration this week include issuing a temporary moratorium on oil and gas leasing in the non-wilderness Coastal Plain (1002 Area) of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), revoking the 2017 presidential permit authorizing construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and suspending all new oil, gas, and mining authorizations for activities on federal lands and waters for 60 days. Sullivan said that these actions will cause significant hardship and job losses for potentially thousands of Alaskans and Americans who are already struggling from the economic challenges caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

"The first few days of the new Biden administration have seen an unprecedented assault on resource development and energy jobs, an attack on the men and women--working men and women with good wages--who produce really important resources for this great nation and now for other countries because we export a lot of these resources,"Senator Sullivan said. "It is an assault on good energy jobs, good resource development jobs that have been the bedrock of millions of middle-class Americans for decades."

For the past four years, Senator Sullivan worked with his Alaska congressional delegation colleagues and senior administration officials to cultivate a "renaissance" of responsible domestic energy production, led by projects in Alaska, that would help lessen America's reliance on foreign sources of oil and gas and create new jobs for Alaskans and Americans.

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