The Biden administration is expected to approve a roughly $8 billion oil drilling project in Alaska, which is a significant climate decision for the administration that had pledged to move away from fossil fuels, a source confirms to ABC News.
FILE - This 2019 aerial photo provided by ConocoPhillips shows an exploratory drilling camp at the proposed site of the Willow oil project on Alaska's North Slope. The Biden administration is weighing approval of a major oil project on Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope that supporters say represents an economic lifeline for Indigenous communities in the region but environmentalists say is counter to Biden's climate goals.
"President Biden is delivering on the most aggressive climate agenda of any U.S. president in history and spurring an unprecedented expansion of clean energy. The Department of the Interior will make an independent decision on the Willow Project," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Saturday. "No final decisions have been made – anyone who says there has been a final decision is wrong.
Pressure is building on the social media platform TikTok to urge President Joe Biden to reject an oil development project on Alaskaâs North Slope from young voters concerned about climate change. 3c with related stories; ETA 2 p.m.Multiple proposals have been put forth, including one from the Bureau of Land Management, that reduced the number of drilling sites, but it's unclear which would be the final version.
But the decision could prove problematic for Biden heading into an expected 2024 re-election bid, given his pledge during the 2020 campaign to allow "no more drilling on federal lands, period."
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