The White House has said it could shrink the ConocoPhillips Willow project and block Arctic Ocean drilling. But environmental groups are not won over.
While some While House climate officials argue the project should be blocked,
Environmentalists sued, and a federal judge blocked construction permits in 2021 because the government failed to assess how burning the oil pulled from the ground there would warm the planet. Those groups have continued pushing allies in Congress and Biden to fight the project. That has led to an aggressive lobbying campaign from Murkowski and other Alaskan elected officials to persuade the White House to accept the three-pad option outlined in the review. She has made the project her top policy priority with the administration and has considerable leverage, according to people who have been involved in deliberations, because the White House officials see her as a rare Republican ally who has helped in getting nominees approved and tempering extremism in Congress.
As the shale boom helped grow oil production in other parts of the country and sink oil prices, it hurt oil production and economic
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