Can Alaska balance its oil interests with the need to limit climate change?

In June 2022 Charlotte Howard took a reporting trip to Alaska to consider how that state is grappling with the desire to drill for oil, and the need to protect its fragile climate from a warming world. We’ve updated the story—which we first ran as a mini-series at the end of last year—to publish on our holiday break. These are those two episodes back-to-back, along with news of some big developments since they were first broadcast.

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