Two petitions with combined signatures in excess of 2.5 million are calling on the administration to drop a new oil project over environmental concerns.
in Alaska gained 2.5 million signatures as of 7:30 a.m. ET Friday, as anger grows at the Biden administration over a potential green light for the plans. Another petition has received more than 300,000 names.
However, environmentalists and local Native American leaders have been calling on the administration to shelve the project. They say it would call into question Biden's climate-change credentials as the president pushes to electrify transport and decarbonize the U.S. economy. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management , which governs one-eighth of the country's landmass, recommended the project for approval in February. However, it added that the Willow Project should include just three sites initially.
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