President Biden's Administration approved ConocoPhillips' disastrous oil and gas project in Alaska. The "Willow Project" is one of the largest proposed new oil operations on public land in the United States and would emit 76 coal plants’ worth of carbon pollution into the atmosphere.
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Environmentalists and Indigenous Groups Blast Approval of Willow Oil Project: President Biden burns his base as he puts profits over people.
Environmental groups on Monday swiftly slammed the Biden administration's approval of the controversial Willow oil drilling project along Alaska's North Slope. They say the ConocoPhillips plan—which would be the largest oil development on federal land in US history—conflicts with the president's promise that no new oil and gas drilling would happen on public lands under his leadership and that the move keeps the country tethered to toxic fossil fuels at a time when scientists say the nation needs to be moving away from carbon pollution. The new project is expected to release more than 260 million tons of carbon dioxide over its three-decade lifespan and will add nearly 500 acres of gravel fill and hundreds of miles of roads and pipelines to one of the country's most wild areas.
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