Al Gore waddled forth to condemn Biden’s approval of the mammoth Willow Oil Project on the North Slope, calling it, “recklessly irresponsible.” Gore makes a compelling case. There’s just one problem. It was his own administration which first opened the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to drilling. Both Gore and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt lent their environmental credentials (such as they were) to drilling on the very tundra where Conoco-Phillips now plans to drill 200 oil wells. Here’s how it happened. More

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