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Biden Promised to Stop Oil Drilling on Public Lands. Is His Failure to Do So a Betrayal or a Smart Political Move?

Environmental groups say they are disappointed, but some argue Biden’s turnaround will preserve political capital for actions with more climate impact.

By Marianne Lavelle

$A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background on December 28, 2017 in Loveland, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images$

Trump Plan Would Open Huge Area of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve to Drilling

By Sabrina Shankman

Shell's Kulluk mobile oil drilling rig is towed by tugs off the coast Alaska in

Committee to Make Offshore Oil Drilling Safer May Disband

By Jason Plautz

Greenpeace activists on the oil-drilling platform Leiv Eiriksson

Activists Scale Oil Rig to Protest Arctic Drilling

John Vidal, Guardian

Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Tainting U.S. Drinking Water

By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica

Criticism of Secret Oil Dispersant in Gulf Grows Louder in U.S.

By Stacy Feldman

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