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Anyone honestly concerned about the climate emergency could be heard heaving a sigh of relief when Joe Biden was elected president.Most of us had done what we could to make it happen, fearing the consequences for the planet and our fellow humans of...

Attorneys for the Interior Department argue in a court brief filed late Wednesday that conservation and Alaska Native groups filed suits to stop ConocoPhillips’ $6 billion Willow oil project too late and the agency sufficiently accounted for the greenhouse gas emissions from the development in its environmental review.

Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images This story was originally published by the Guardian  as part of their two-year series, This Land is Your Land, examining the threats facing America’s public lands, with support from the Society of Environmental Journalists, and is republished by permission. Joe Biden’s administration is facing an onslaught of criticism from environmentalists after opting to defend the approval of a massive oil and gas drilling project in the frigid no...

By BECKY BOHRER The Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska  — U.S. government attorneys are defending a decision made during the Trump administration to approve a

feed to stay on top of the news. The group argues the ConocoPhillips development that could produce more than 100,000 barrels of oil each day will threaten wildlife and the Nuiqsut community in Alaska’s North Slope, as well as lead to the production of more climate-warming greenhouse gases.  While President Biden has paused all new drilling leases on public land as his administration is aiming to take bold action to transition away from fossil fuels, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a ...

Center for Biological Diversity: ANCHORAGE— The Department of Justice has filed a legal brief defending the Trump administration’s approval of a massive oil and gas project known as the Willow Master Development Plan in Alaska’s Western Arctic.

The Willow project involves drilling 250 wells to extract oil in a 23 million-acre Alaska reserve. The Biden administration — which has halted new oil and gas leases on federal land — gave the Trump-era project the green light in court this week. In this undated file photo, drilling operations at the Doyon Rig 19 at the Conoco-Phillips Carbon location in the National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska, are shown. (AP Photo/Judy Patrick, File) (CN) — President Joe Biden’s support this week of an ...

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 de...

Environmentalists pledged to fight the Biden administration's defense of a $6 billion oil and gas project on Alaska's North Slope, setting up a conflict with green groups that have largely cheered the Interior Department's newly tougher stance on fossil fuel extraction on public lands.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Department of Justice filed a legal brief yesterday defending the Trump administration’s approval of a massive oil and gas project known as the Willow Master Development Plan in Alaska’s Western Arctic. Conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging the project in December, after federal officials failed to properly examine how the project would exacerbate the climate crisis and harm caribou and polar bears. This oil drilling project is at odds with President Bide...