No one’s made a penny drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But the decades-long debate over the Refuge’s fate has produced a gusher of money for pollsters, consultants, advertisers and activists in Washington. Living on Earth’s Jeff Young looks at who’s striking it rich in one of the nation’s most enduring environmental fights.
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