Analysis: Willow's estimated annual production is about one-half of 1 percent of U.S. onshore oil production last year. But to environmental advocates, Willow is much bigger than that.
Biden’s campaign website limited the promise to a ban of “new” permits, and an administration official told me the pledge was not meant to refer to permits on land that had already been leased, such as the land in Alaska’s North Slope where Willow will be located.
Environmental advocates have called on Biden to bring that number down. Permits for drilling projects like Willow should not be approved in isolation, they say, but should be considered as part of a long-term plan to phase out U.S. oil production. Those cases could be long shots. By law, the government must approve a permit unless doing so would be illegal — if, say, drilling would imperil a protected archaeological site or an endangered animal — according to Mark Squillace, a natural resources law professor at the University of Colorado who worked at the Interior Department during the Carter, Reagan and Clinton administrations.
The government will offer more acres for lease this year, partly because Sen. Joe Manchin III inserted a provision in last year’s climate and spending bill that requires the Interior Department to sell drilling leases whenever it offers land for renewable energy development. Even still, this year’s offerings mark a decline from the recent past.Note: The first year of the Trump and Biden administrations began on Jan. 20. The final year of the Trump and Obama administrations ended on Jan. 19.
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