We have seen too many examples of this White House making pro-fossil fuel decisions that fly in the face of its own climate rhetoric. It's why we're marching and we hope you'll join us.
Emily Wurth is the Managing Director of Organizing at the national advocacy organization Food & Water Watch
There is no doubt that less drilling in Alaska—or anywhere else—is better than more. But it’s reasonable to argue that the Biden administration’s move is more symbolic than substantive. And it’s driven at least in part by the need to make up for a series of bad decisions;that President Biden has felt ‘personally stung’ by the climate movement’s outrage over the administration’s approval of several high profile dirty energy projects.
It’s hard to say for sure whether a small number of ANWR leases would have ever led to any drilling. On the other hand, elsewhere in Alaska there are considerably bigger plans in place: namely, ConocoPhillips’on the North Slope, which could produce about 200,000 barrels of oil a day over 30 years. It is estimated that Willow will create hundreds of millions of metric tons of climate pollution.
But in a time of climate emergency, messages like this fall flat. And it’s hard to square these justifications with the White House’s overall record. Indeed, we have seenof the Biden White House making pro-fossil fuel decisions that fly in the face of its own climate rhetoric. In its first two years, the administration approved more oil and gas permits than the Trump administration—despite Biden’s campaign pledge to stop fracking on public lands.
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