The Biden-Harris administration will scale back but approve the proposed Willow Project on Alaska’s North Slope, the largest pending oil and gas development in the United States. The development by ConocoPhillips would be located west of the Prudhoe Bay oil field, in the twenty-three million-acre National Petroleum Reserve. At peak operation, it is expected to produce 180,000 barrels of oil each day. …Senator Lisa Murkowski, R‑Alaska, has pressed for Willow. …Environmental groups have campaigned against what the Sierra Club has described as “a climate disaster waiting to happen.” …The Biden-Harris administration… reinstated the Clinton era “Roadless Rule,” blocking construction of new roads into old growth forests of Southeast Alaska’s vast Tongass National Forest. “We’ve had decision after decision go against us and even this one – a socially just project located within a petroleum reserve – it’s perilously close,” Murkowski said.

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