BREAKING: We're going to court. The Biden Administration approved the Willow oil project without adequately assessing its climate impacts. It could've properly weighed its options to limit the impact. It could've said no. It didn't. And now, we are filing a lawsuit to stop it.
Together with @NRDC, we filed a legal challenge claiming the Biden administration has failed to consider alternatives that could have meaningfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions and on-the-ground effects of the Willow Project.
The lawsuit also takes the administration to task for failing to assess Willow’s full climate impact, by neglecting to consider the additional climate pollution of future development that can only happen once Willow project infrastructure is in place.
"We’re bringing today’s lawsuit to ensure that the administration follows the law and ultimately makes good on this promise for future generations," said Earthjustice's Erik Grafe. #StopWillowejus.tc/3FpLRqw
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BREAKING: Today @EPA finally released the nation’s first drinking water standards for six highly dangerous PFAS chemicals. About 200 million people drink water contaminated by these “forever chemicals,” which stay in the environment and our bodies for decades.
Communities poisoned by PFAS contamination have been urging @EPA to pass these laws and prevent residents from further suffering caused by the toxic chemicals which include health harms like reproductive harm, immune deficiencies, and cancer.
These long-overdue drinking water standards are just one of the [LB1] actions EPA must take to protect people from pervasive exposure to PFAS, a class of more than 9,000 toxic chemicals. Check out our tracker to see how @EPA is doing: ejus.tc/3Lb9Zkr
BREAKING: The Biden Administration has just approved ConocoPhillips's Willow oil project, ignoring pleas from millions who called for the Alaska oil-drilling plan to be halted due to concerns about climate change. 🧵
.@Interior’s record of decision ignores the project's dire climate and biodiversity impacts. It approves 3 drilling pads which will produce 92% of the oil ConocoPhillips initially sought to develop, amounting to more than 260 million metric tons of greenhouse gases.
This project is also intended to be a stepping-stone for oil development. ConocoPhillips has described Willow as the “next great Alaska hub,” saying it had identified up to 3 billion barrels of nearby prospects that could be accessed if the Willow infrastructure were in place.
Trump is totally distorting his environmental record today. He continues to deny climate change amid worsening storms and disasters and scientists around the world warning of horrible floods, heatwaves, catastrophic storms and economic crises. pscp.tv/w/1mrxmvvpkrQKy
Trump falsely claims that particulate matter or soot is six times lower here than the global average. Here’s the truth: He’s planning to increase soot emissions from coal-fired plants which will cause thousands to lose their lives each year.
Trump falsely claims he has prioritized cleaning polluted lands. The truth is Trump is giving coal plants a free pass, so they don’t have to save money to clean up toxic coal ash spills. ejus.tc/2G23jT3