The Biden administration has taken a key step forward on a controversial proposed oil drilling project in Alaska’s North Slope.
The US Department of Interior released a draft environmental impact statement for the ConocoPhillips oil drilling project, known as Willow, on Friday night. The statement does not represent a final decision and includes several potential scenarios for the project, including no drilling. But it was a critical step the Biden administration needed to complete for the process to move forward -- setting off alarm bells among environmental groups.
"From day one, I've elevated the Willow project to the Administration as my top priority," Murkowski said in a statement. Environmental groups blasted the new development, saying it would destroy Biden's climate goals of slashing US greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade and accelerate the pace of climate change.
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