The Biden administration suspended oil and gas drilling leases within Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge pending the outcome of an environmental impact review, officials said on Tuesday.
Biden Administration Defends Huge Alaska Oil Drilling Project
The administration says the country must pivot away from fossil fuels but backed a project set to produce more than 100,000 barrels of oil each day for 30 years.
Nuiqsut, Alaska, a village near an oil drilling project that residents worry could affect caribou migration and air quality.Credit.Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post, via Getty Images
Published May 26, 2021Updated May 28, 2021
WASHINGTON The Biden administration is defending a huge Trump-era oil and gas project in the North Slope of Alaska designed to produce more than 100,000 barrels of oil a day for the next 30 years, despite President Biden’s pledge to pivot the country away from fossil fuels.
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