Climate Activists FUME After Biden Approves Arctic Drilling He Once "Totally" Opposed#09

On the campaign trail then-candidate Biden claimed he "completely" and "totally" opposed more drilling in the arctic, and called it a "disaster." This week, however, he explicitly violated that campaign promise by approving the Willow project.

Sources:
Biden Admin Approves Massive Oil Drilling Project: https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-approves-willow-project
What Biden Promised on the Campaign Trail: https://twitter.com/CJAOurPower/status/1635400387456045057
Obama Takes Credit for Oil and Gas Boom: https://apnews.com/article/business-5dfbc1aa17701ae219239caad0bfefb2

Chapters:
0:00 Biden on the Campaign Trail
0:56 Biden Approves Willow Project
1:52 Environmental Groups Respond
2:57 Proposed Compromise
4:50 Biden's Reasoning
5:53 Closing Thoughts
7:09 Outro

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