Experts say the oil and gas drilling project in Alaska would destroy the president's climate legacy if approved.
In their letter, the lawmakers tell Biden and Haaland that the only course of action should be “no action,” following the release of the final supplemental environmental impact statement on the project earlier this year. According to the letter:
The final SEIS includes a preferred alternative that would defer one drill site and require additional analysis for another, but we fear that the Willow MDP is intended to serve as an infrastructure hub that anchors a decades-long push towards increased drilling in the Western Arctic. Climate damage is unlikely to stop with the first phase of the Willow project; your Administration needs to draw the line now.
In a separate letter on Friday, the grassroots advocacy group Progressive Democrats of America also urged Biden to recognize the historic and legacy-building opportunity in rejecting the Willow project completely., which was signed by leaders and members of PDA chapters nationwide. “To the elder in you. To the grandfather in you. Do not gamble with our lives and with the lives of generations yet unborn. Reject the Willow Oil Project.
Grijalva and Markey were joined in the bicameral letter by Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán , Rep. Earl Blumenauer , Rep.
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