The Biden administration on Tuesday suspended oil and gas drilling leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ahead of the outcome of an environmental impact review, reversing a policy that former President Donald Trump initiated right before leaving office. President Joe Biden, on his first day in office in January, placed a temporary ban on the wildlife refuge’s new leases. But on Tuesday, Secretary Deb Haaland issued a memo (pdf) saying that activities in the region must halt pending the analysis. “This order is effective immediately,” Haaland’s memo read, “and will remain in effect until it is amended, superseded, or revoked, whichever occurs first.” The Department of the Interior, according to her memo, carried out a review that “identified multiple legal deficiencies in the underlying record supporting the leases,” which she said was the previous administration’s “insufficient analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act … including failure to adequately analyze a reasonable range of …