The Biden administration announced Monday morning that it is giving final approval to a major oil drilling project in Alaska located in the largest unspoiled natural area in the United States, triggering swift condemnation from climate change activists.
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The Bureau of Land Management's decision to greenlight the proposal, known as the Willow project, has been the subject of intense lobbying in recent weeks. To mollify project opponents, the White House paired the announcement with some reductions in the scope of the project andDuring the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden pledged to end new federal oil and gas drilling. Here’s what we know about the project and what caused Biden to approve the project.
“The Willow Project is a carbon bomb, and an environmental and political disaster that we cannot afford,” Liv Schroeder, national policy director of the youth climate action group Fridays for Future US, said in a statement on Saturday in anticipation of potential approval. “President Biden promised young people, climate voters, and frontline communities that he would stop oil and gas expansion on federal land, and that he would be a climate president. A climate president wouldn’t approve Willow.
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