Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is backing President Joe Biden’s decision to approve an Alaska oil field development project amid criticism from within Democratic Party ranks. After lengthy deliberations and arguments for and against the Alaskan oil drilling proposal, known as the Willow Project, Biden decided on Monday to approve a scaled-down version of the Willow…
Sen. Manchin Defends Biden Approval For Alaska Oil Drilling Project Amid Criticism From Democrats
Democrats Criticize Biden’s Failed Climate Promises in Approving Alaska Willow Oil Project
March 14, 2023
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The Biden administration’s decision to approve a 30-year oil-drilling project has sparked criticism from Democrats—and particularly progressives—from both chambers of Congress. The Department of the Interior (DOI) approved the Willow Project on Monday, allowing oil giant ConocoPhillips to move forward with a drilling plan within a northeastern section of the 23 million acres of the…
Biden Administration Approves Massive Oil Drilling Project in Alaska
March 13, 2023
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The Biden administration’s decision to allow ConocoPhillips to proceed with its $8 billion North Slope Alaska Willow Project while making the Arctic Ocean off-limits to oil development and banning new leases on 13 million of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska’s 23 million acres is drawing criticism from all sides. But don’t count ConocoPhillips among the critics….
Biden Approves Scaled-Down Alaska Willow Oil Project
March 13, 2023
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The Biden administration has green-lit a scaled-back version of the $8 billion Willow oil field development project, angering climate activists while delighting lawmakers from Alaska who have been battling to secure the project. On Monday, the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced that it had approved three of the originally proposed five drilling pads by…
‘The End of Oil in America’: Biden May Reject Alaska Oil Project
March 8, 2023
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Alaska’s Republican governor Mike Dunleavy is not expecting the Biden administration to approve the Willow project—an oil and gas plan proposed by crude oil producer ConocoPhillips. “We’re preparing for them to deny this,” Gov. Dunleavy said on Fox News. “And it’s sad to say that, but their idea of a compromise, apparently, is to allow only…
Biden Finds No Olive Branches on Alaska’s North Slope in Pending Willow Decision
March 3, 2023
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President Joe Biden is stuck between Alaska’s North Slope and a hard place in pondering his pending decision to deny or endorse Conoco-Phillips’ $8 billion Willow Project, the largest new oil field development proposed in the United States in decades. Among Biden’s 2020 campaign pledges was “no, no, no more” new oil drilling on federal…
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