Joe Balash

Joe Balash, the high-level Alaskan appointee at the U.S. Department of the Interior who pushed to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil leasing, is taking a job with an oil company seeking to develop a major project in Alaska.

President Obama created Tuesday a new inter-agency group to coordinate oil and gas development in Alaska.

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