One of President Donald Trump's first-day executive orders initially overlooked by the media is getting support from executives even though it was blocked by former President Joe Biden while he was in office.

The Ambler Access Project is a 211-mile industrial road through the Brooks Range foothills meant to facilitate commercial mining for copper, zinc and other natural resources in Northwest Alaska. 

Trump's order allows the project to move forward, reversing Biden's blockage of the project and signaling a significant shift in U.S. energy policy.

"President Biden issued 70 executive actions that discouraged tapping into Alaska's natural resources and public lands access," Gabriella Hoffman, Independent Women’s Forum Center for Energy & Conservation Director, told Fox News Digital. "Unlike his predecessor, President Trump recognizes Alaska's potential to meet domestic energy and national security needs for reliable energy and critical minerals—including restoring the Ambler Access Project connecting to the Ambler Mining District."

Bringing economic development

"The Ambler Access Project has endured extensive environmental review and would bring economic development to rural communities in dire need of it without despoiling Alaska's natural beauty," Hoffman added. "Those who would benefit from employment by Ambler also hunt, fish, and enjoy public lands."

The project is projected to bring $1 billion in revenue to the state and create thousands of jobs there.

"Ambler Road is the equivalent of a shoelace on a football field: a blip in the vast remoteness of Alaska’s wilderness," Power The Future founder and Executive Director Daniel Turner told Fox News Digital. "Yet somehow bureaucrats in DC who do not live there and cannot find it on a map have the authority to prevent Alaskans from developing their own land and growing their economy. It’s insanity."

It is also a way to lessen U.S. dependence on China for these critical minerals, Turner said.

"Critical projects"

"Critical projects in Alaska like Ambler Road and Pebble Mine and oil and gas exploration in ANWR which are held up by radical green ideologues have forced our dependency on China for these raw materials, compromised our national security, but also prevented our fellow Americans in Alaska from the prosperity and economic opportunities they deserve," Turner said.

"So many raw materials we need are in Alaska, and Governor Dunleavy is hamstrung by green insanity in San Francisco and Washington, DC from developing them and growing his state’s prosperity. The Trump Administration could be the most pro-Alaskan Presidency since Lincoln bought it."

"Access to the Ambler Mining District is guaranteed by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) of 1980," Hoffman pointed out.

"My fellow Lower-48ers treat Alaska as a national preserve to be untouched and unexplored--dismissing locals and their perspectives," Hoffman added. "President Trump is actually listening to Alaskans and their needs."

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) said he's looking forward to working with Trump to develop Alaska in ways that helps the state's residents.

"After enduring a four-year onslaught of 70 executive orders and actions by the Biden administration targeting my state, Alaskans have a new sense of hope and optimism for our future across a whole host of sectors and projects, including in our ability to develop our vast deposits of critical minerals and metals—many of which the United States is almost wholly dependent on China for," Sullivan said.