Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) issued a scathing rebuke Monday of President Joe Biden’s administration after it approved a scaled-down version of an oil drilling project in a petroleum-rich region of northern Alaska.
Markey, a climate hawk and cosponsor of the failed Green New Deal, called the administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project, a multibillion-dollar oil drilling endeavor in the federal North Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, a “disastrous decision.”
I am with all the advocates who oppose this disastrous decision to approve the Willow Project and will continue fighting alongside them to put our people and our planet ahead of Big Oil profits. pic.twitter.com/VmhlCWkhBK
— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) March 13, 2023
The move is an “environmental injustice,” Markey said, despite the Biden administration not only approving a limited version of the project that would allow for drilling in three, rather than five, drill site pads but also announcing new…
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