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Opponents of a major oil project on Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope lost the first round of their legal battle over the Willow project but said they would not give up.
Opponents of a major oil project on Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope lost the first round of their legal battle over the Willow project but said they would not give up.
The decision would allow an enormous $8 billion drilling project in the largest expanse of pristine wilderness in the United States.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration’s approval this week of the biggest oil drilling project in Alaska in decades promises to widen a rift among Alaska Natives, with some saying that oil money can't counter the damages caused by climate change and others defending the project as economically vital.
The Biden administration announced a host of new environmental protections to limit future drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, just before it approved development of the massive Willow oil field.