'No version of the [Willow Project] is consistent with your commitments to combat the climate crisis and promote environmental justice.' —Letter to POTUS led by SenMarkey & NRDems RepRaulGrijalva
The letter comes days after White House officials floated the possibility of a scaled-back Willow Project, but environmentalists have said, asThe Burea of Land Management has estimated that even a scaled-back version would emit around 9.
The final SEIS includes a preferred alternative that would defer one drill site and require additional analysis for another, but we fear that the Willow MDP is intended to serve as an infrastructure hub that anchors a decades-long push towards increased drilling in the Western Arctic. Climate damage is unlikely to stop with the first phase of the Willow project; your Administration needs to draw the line now.
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