(RepublicanDaily.org) – Environmental protection agencies and Democrats were “enraged” by the Biden administration’s decision to approve the ConocoPhillips Willow Project in Alaska. Opponents of the ConocoPhillips deal have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration in an outraged response, Fox News reported.
Six environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration on Tuesday over the massive Alaska Willow oil project by the ConocoPhillips company. The groups claim that the project region is an “ecologically sensitive” region and that the project instigated risks of “known harms” to the region’s Arctic communities, wildlife ecosystem, and the public health of individuals in the surrounding area, Reuters reported.
While Republicans local to Alaska favored the project as a job creation tool, Democrats and environmentalists saw Biden’s decision as a betrayal of campaign pledges, Newsweek reported. Supporters of the project said it would “boost U.S. energy security,” at a time when the global energy market is braced with insecurity. Yet, Joe Biden had claimed during his campaign that he would push America toward low carbon emissions fuel alternates and clean energy.
For example, the Biden administration has devoted a large sum of resources to the Build Back Better plan’s electric vehicle charging station initiative. Earlier in 2023, the Biden administration had reached an agreement with Tesla Founder and CEO Elon Musk to make all Tesla charging stations compatible with electric vehicles produced by other automakers. The Biden administration praised Tesla for its participation in this effort, as the administration hoped to secure the accessibility of 7,500 Tesla charging stations, as part of its efforts to have at least 500,000 accessible electric vehicle charging stations across the U.S. by 2030, NBC News reported on February 15.
The United States Department of the Interior announced it would ceded “68,000 acres” of its existing leases in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska around the project site, one day after announcing “sweeping” protections for roughly 16 million actress of Alaska’s land and water sites, Newsweek reported.
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