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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — U.S. government attorneys are defending a decision made during the Trump administration to approve a major oil project on Alaska’s North Slope. Critics say the action flies in the face of President Joe Biden's pledges to address climate change.

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.