The Biden administration’s decision to authorize a massive Alaska oil drilling project has sparked furious backlash from U.S. environmental groups, which say it flies in the face of the president’s campaign trail promises and betrays his climate commitments.
The Interior Department approved a scaled-down version of ConocoPhillips's Willow Project in northern Alaska, allowing the Houston-based company to develop three out of five drilling well pads it had initially proposed. Interior also “indefinitely” banned oil and gas leasing on more than 2 million acres nearby in a nod to conservationists.
Biden campaigned on the promise to halt all oil and gas leasing on federal lands. Some groups said that the Willow Project, which could produce up to 180,000 barrels of oil per day, risks jeopardizing Biden’s pledge to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
"BLM cannot dismiss the significance of these emissions on the basis that they are a small fraction of global emissions, which is true for any single project, because it ignores the global nature of the problem posed by climate change," Earthjustice, an environmental nongovernmental organization, said in comments to the Bureau of Land Management's draft environmental review of the project.
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