If approved by the federal government, the project would break Biden's promises for confronting the climate crisis.
Climate groups raised the
“If approved the Willow project would be bigger than any other proposed oil and gas project on our nation’s public lands, and it poses an unparalleled climate and biodiversity threat that puts President Biden’s climate legacy at risk,” said Kristen Miller, conservation director of the Alaska Wilderness League, following BLM’s release on Friday of its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement .
“Willow is a legacy setting project that will test whether the Biden administration is righting America’s course from a dangerous climate path,” she added.
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