The Biden administration said that it is withdrawing a Trump-era land-swap deal that would have allowed a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, moving to protect a vast wild area originally protected under President Jimmy Carter.
last month at 98 and has made the issue a top priority in his final days. But it stops short of the complete rejection of a road sought by some environmentalists and Carter himself. And it comes one day after climate activists criticized President Biden for approving, saying the approval of ConocoPhillips’s Willow project would undermine the president’s own legacy on environmental protection.
“This decision does not foreclose further consideration of a land exchange to address the community’s concerns, although such an exchange would likely be with different terms and conditions,” the brief said. “I am a lifelong conservationist, and I believe deeply in the need to protect our lands and waters and honor our obligations to Tribal Nations. Respecting Tribal sovereignty means ensuring that we are listening – really listening – to Tribal communities,” she added.
“My name is Jimmy Carter,” he wrote in the brief. “In my lifetime, I have been a farmer, a naval officer, a Sunday school teacher, an outdoorsman, a democracy activist, a builder, governor of Georgia and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. And from 1977 to 1981, I had the privilege of serving as the 39th president of the United States.”
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