Look West: Public lands and energy news from the Center for Western Priorities
** Alaska oil project would erase Biden's clean energy progress
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Thursday, March 3, 2022
Caribou in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Bob Wick, BLM ([link removed])
A massive oil and gas project in Alaska, if approved, would negate all of the greenhouse gas reduction goals President Biden has set for America's public lands. TheWashington Post reports ([link removed]) that a new analysis by the Center for American Progress looked at the potential carbon output of ConocoPhillips' Willow project, which aims to extract more than 500 million barrels of oil from the Arctic over 30 years.
According to the Bureau of Land Management's estimates, Willow would release more than 250 metric tons of carbon dioxide over its lifetime. In contrast, President Biden has promised to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030, and permit 25 gigawatts of new onshore renewable energy on public lands by 2025. CAP found those new projects ([link removed]) would prevent 129 million metric tons of carbon emissions.
In other words, the Willow project would release nearly twice as much carbon into the atmosphere as President Biden aims to save on public lands and waters.
“The Biden administration has set ambitious renewable and climate commitments, and I think they need to recognize that this project could have a legacy-defining impact just due to its carbon emissions alone,” said Jenny Rowland-Shea, CAP's deputy director for public lands.
Quick hits
** Corner-crossing video: ‘Do they realize how much money my boss has?’
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WyoFile ([link removed])
** A battle over building codes may be the most important climate fight you've never heard of
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Huffpost ([link removed])
** Oil boom feeds New Mexico budget, but enviro agencies left strapped for cash
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New Mexico Political Report ([link removed])
** Bears Ears land swap—a school trust "gold mine"—could fail because of anti-monument lawsuit
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Salt Lake Tribune ([link removed])
** Fossil fuel companies stonewall Sarah Bloom Raskin's nomination to the Fed
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New Yorker ([link removed])
** Phoenix isn't what it once was because of climate change, but it's not too late to save it
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Arizona Republic ([link removed])
** How Black creators are tearing down barriers to the outdoors
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Mic ([link removed])
** Add these under-the-radar National Park Service units to your adventure list
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Outside ([link removed])
Quote of the day
” If the staggering changes Phoenix has undergone since I left as a child prove anything, it is that we can change again. The rate at which this community, and the global one, has shifted and adapted to new technologies and lifestyles in recent decades is impressive. The challenge now is to make similar strides in a not-quite opposite, but a different direction.”
—Joan Meiners, Arizona Republic ([link removed])
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If you plan a winter visit to this recreation area east of Lovell, Wyoming, be prepared—crampons may be helpful near the falls, and you may need chains to reach the site along the steep, 2-mile access road.
📸Melissa Higley and Rick Tryder, BLM
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