Climate Politics
Biden to Limit Arctic Oil Drilling Ahead of Willow Approval
- Administration set to authorize giant Alaskan oil development
- Conservation won’t make up for Willow approval, activists say
Joe Biden
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President Joe Biden is limiting oil leasing in Arctic waters and sensitive areas of Alaska, taking steps to expand conservation as his administration prepares to approve a mammoth ConocoPhillips oil development in the region.
Biden is expanding an Obama-era ban on new oil and gas leasing in US Arctic waters and will write new rules barring the sale of new drilling rights across much of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, where ConocoPhillips’s 600 million-barrel Willow venture is planned, the Interior Department said in a news release.