The Trump administration wants to drill in an Arctic wildlife refuge. There might not even be much oil there.

Oil company in Alaska.
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The Trump administration's push to expand oil drilling in Alaska is underway, but it could be hampered by an ongoing mystery.

The New York Times reports that one of the areas the White House aims to designate for selling oil drilling leases — which happens to be part of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska — might not be quite so oil-rich in the first place.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.