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      'No Form of This Project Is OK': Climate Groups Reject White House Push for Willow Compromise

      "Climate change is melting Alaska's glaciers," said the Alaska Wilderness League. "We can't afford to dig the hole any deeper with bad ideas like the Willow Project."

      Julia Conley
      Mar 02, 2023

      Climate advocates on Wednesday intensified their warnings to the Biden administration against approving oil giant ConocoPhillips' Willow project in Alaska, rejecting attempts by White House officials to reach a "compromise" on a drilling project that would generate an estimated 9.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year.

      Even approval of a "scaled back version" of the Willow project, said former Sierra Club president Dave Scott, would lead to "a tragedy environmentalists know all too well."

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      A pump jack operates on April 23, 2020 in Eddy County, New Mexico. 

      Green Groups Defend Biden Decision to Delay Oil and Gas Drilling Leases

      "The energy sector should be looking to the future of justly sourced renewable energy, not pushing outdated technology that exploits people and the planet."

      Julia Conley
      Feb 08, 2023

      More than a dozen groups intervened in a case in Wyoming on Wednesday to defend the Biden administration's decision to postpone the sale of oil and gas leases in the state, arguing that numerous court ruling and settled laws have affirmed the U.S. Interior Department is free to determine when such sales will go forward—or whether they will at all.

      The legal groups Earthjustice and the Western Environmental Law Center are representing 17 national and local groups in the case, in which the state of Wyoming and two industry trade groups sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in December over its postponement of sales that had been planned for 2021 and 2022.

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      An oil pipeline stretches across the landscape outside Prudhoe Bay in North Slope Borough, Alaska

      'Massive Climate Disaster': Groups Demand Biden Reverse Course on Willow Project

      "Greenlighting the Willow Project would banish President Biden’s climate legacy to one of irreparable and downright shameful environmental destruction," said a campaigner with Friends of the Earth.

      Jake Johnson
      Feb 01, 2023

      The Biden administration's Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday published an environmental assessment that recommends partial approval of a major drilling project on Alaska's North Slope, prompting a flurry of calls for the Interior Department to reject the plan outright and prevent any additional fossil fuel extraction in the region.

      "Greenlighting the Willow project would banish President Biden's climate legacy to one of irreparable and downright shameful environmental destruction," said Raena Garcia, fossil fuels and lands campaigner for Friends of the Earth. "Big Oil's exploitation of the rapidly warming Arctic has already thrust local communities onto the frontlines of the climate crisis, jeopardizing public health and polluting critical ecosystems."

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