President Joe Biden said during his State of the Union address Tuesday that the climate crisis is an “existential threat” and political leaders have an obligation to confront it.
“There is no denying that President Biden has made important strides to invest in renewable energy through the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act,” said Jeff Ordower, 350.org’s North America director. “However, we are not truly living up to real climate solutions if Biden continues to rely on the fossil fuel industry and allow them to pump more oil and gas.”
a massive ConocoPhillips drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope. Even under the scaled-back version that the Bureau of Land Management has suggested, the Willow Project would emit an estimated 9.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. More than two years into his presidency, Biden has badly failed to meet his campaign pledge to end new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters. According to
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