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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Kim Heacox

Alaska’s Willow arctic drilling project is a climate turning-point. Biden must say no

Protesters outside the White House with banner reading stop the willow oil project
‘Amid all the clutter and noise, Biden must focus on the objective truth of climate change.’ Photograph: Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

President Biden faces a legacy-making – or legacy-breaking – decision in arctic Alaska with the $8bn Willow project, the largest oil and gas project currently proposed on US public lands.

If Biden remembers his visionary pledge – forged in the hard truth of human-caused climate change – that the US will expand into clean energy and approve no new oil drilling on federal lands, then his decision should be straightforward.

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