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US President Donald Trump listens as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum points at a map of Alaska during an event in the Oval Office on October 6, 2025.

"We should be banning drilling in the Arctic Ocean, not making it easier for industry to exploit and pollute."

The Trump administration on Monday proposed weakening Obama-era safeguards for fossil fuel drilling in the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf, a move condemned by environmental groups as another industry handout that would make disastrous oil spills more likely.