Yesterday, the Biden administration approved the $8 billion Willow oil project on federally-owned land in Alaska. If the drilling plan is able to hurdle forthcoming legal challenges, this massive oil development could produce 180,000 barrels of crude over 30 years. In other words, more CO2 to come.

“Approving the Willow Project is an unacceptable departure from President Biden’s promises to the American people on climate and environmental justice,” said Lena Moffitt, executive director of Evergreen Action.

The problem, however, is not that Biden let us down — he was never on our side, to begin with. More

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