{"id":20269,"date":"2026-03-19T20:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/contentious-alaska-oil-gas-drilling-rights-sale-generates-record-revenue\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T20:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:21:07","slug":"contentious-alaska-oil-gas-drilling-rights-sale-generates-record-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/contentious-alaska-oil-gas-drilling-rights-sale-generates-record-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Contentious Alaska oil, gas drilling rights sale generates record revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration said this week that its recent sale of the rights to drill in a contentious area of Alaska generated record revenue for federal oil and gas lease sales. The news signals optimism from the oil industry that high energy prices could persist &mdash; as expanding oil and gas drilling can be years-long&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/5792164-alaska-drilling-lease-sale-oil\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration said this week that its recent sale of the rights to drill in a contentious area of Alaska generated record revenue for federal oil and gas lease sales. The news signals optimism from the oil industry that high energy prices could persist &mdash; as expanding oil and gas drilling can be years-long&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}