For 2 years, Sen. Lisa Murkowski played the long game on expanding drilling in Alaska. Now, she's taking a victory lap after the Biden admin's approval of a massive oil project that environmentalists call his biggest climate betrayal since taking office.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski has long lobbied presidents from both parties to support energy development in her state. | Francis Chung/E&E NewsFor nearly two years, Sen. Lisa Murkowski played the long game on expanding drilling in Alaska: She voted for many of President Joe Biden’s key nominees. She backed several of the Democratic president’s legislative priorities. And all the while, she bent the ears of top White House officials every chance she could.
“I think in terms of the president’s engagement in this, a single state project … doesn’t get elevated to the presidential level, to the senior team, unless there’s political interest,” she said. Shortly thereafter, the Biden Justice Department announced it would defend Willow in court against litigation from activists alleging the ConocoPhillips project would be devastating to the environment — a seeming reversal from a president who promised, during his 2020 campaign, “no more drilling on federal lands, period.”
Beaudreau’s nomination for the assistant secretary position, paired with the administration’s posture surrounding Willow in the courts, was a turning point for Murkowski in her dealings with the Biden Interior Department.
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