Biden Finds No Olive Branches on Alaska’s North Slope in Pending Willow Decision

Alaska’s Republican U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola stand together before a contingent of Alaskans who traveled more than 4,000 miles to Washington on March 1 to call on President Joe Biden to approve the state's $8 billion Willow Project. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

President Joe Biden is stuck between Alaska’s North Slope and a hard place in pondering his pending decision to deny or endorse Conoco-Phillips’ $8 billion Willow Project, the largest new oil field development proposed in the United States in decades.

Among Biden’s 2020 campaign pledges was “no, no, no more” new oil drilling on federal public lands, a key component in his plan to halve the nation’s carbon emissions by 2030.