The Biden administration abandoned an oil and gas drilling project in Alaska approved by former President Donald Trump, which it had previously defended.
The Department of the Interior failed to file an appeal to a federal judge's August decision blocking the multi-billion dollar Willow Project being developed by the Texas-based oil and gas firm ConocoPhillips.
"Today's affirmation of our legal victory against the Willow project is a win for the climate and for an irreplaceable Alaska landscape," Jeremy Lieb, an attorney for the group Earthjustice, said in a statement Wednesday.
While the administration chose against appealing the ruling - all but killing the project - it previously vowed to defend the initiative.
"We hope the Biden administration's choice to accept the federal court's decision of halting ConocoPhillips' Willow project is the beginning of the end of federal backing of fossil fuels," Greenpeace USA senior research specialist Tim Donaghy said in a statement.
100%. 0%. The Trump administration approved the project in October 2020 after an extensive review of its potential ecological impacts.
"The Biden Administration needs to keep its commitment to the Alaskan people by continuing to defend the Willow project in court for the sake of American energy," he continued.
https://www.wnd.com/2021/10/biden-blows-another-oil-project-hired-thousands/
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