A group of environmental organizations sued the administration on Wednesday to stop an oil drilling project in Alaska that President Biden approved this week, likening the $8 billion venture…
this week, likening the $8 billion venture to a “carbon bomb.”
“There is no question that the administration possessed the legal authority to stop Willow — yet it chose not to,” Erik Grafe, deputy managing attorney in Earthjustice’s Alaska regional office,“It greenlit this carbon bomb without adequately assessing its climate impacts or weighing its options to limit the damage and say no. The climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges we face, and President Biden has promised to do all he can to meet the moment,” the statement continued.
The environmental groups argue that the ConocoPhillips drilling project on Alaska’s Northern Slope will add about “260 million metric tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere over the next 30 years.”
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