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The cost of senior care: Why aging farmers fear the nursing home
4 months, 1 week ago

The cost of senior care: Why aging farmers fear the nursing home

NPR  

The cost of senior care: Why aging farmers fear the nursing home toggle caption Tim Evans/for NPR RUGBY, N.D. — Cindie Haakenson was relieved when a room opened up at the Heart of America long-term care center this past spring. “We’ve got farmland that we own we could sell, but it’s like giving away part of your legacy.” toggle caption …

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Environmentalists urge US to plan ‘phasedown’ of Alaska’s key oil pipeline amid climate concerns
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Environmentalists urge US to plan ‘phasedown’ of Alaska’s key oil pipeline amid climate concerns

Associated Press  

JUNEAU, Alaska — Environmental groups on Wednesday petitioned the U.S. Department of Interior to review climate impacts related to the decades-old trans-Alaska pipeline system and develop a plan for a “managed phasedown” of the 800-mile pipeline, which is Alaska’s economic lifeline. “Every drop of oil that moves through the pipeline is more climate devastation, both here in Alaska and around …

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How a drilling project and Israel-Hamas overshadow Biden’s climate record for young voters
8 months ago

How a drilling project and Israel-Hamas overshadow Biden’s climate record for young voters

LA Times  

President Biden spent his Earth Day in a national forest this year with an explicit pitch to young people: a climate jobs corps intended to excite Gen Z the way John F. Kennedy’s Peace Corps inspired their grandparents. Many young voters don’t know much about Biden’s climate record, and many of the activists who helped fuel his 2020 victory are …

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Appeals court weighs whether to let stand Biden’s approval of Willow oil project in Alaska
11 months ago

Appeals court weighs whether to let stand Biden’s approval of Willow oil project in Alaska

Associated Press  

JUNEAU, Alaska — An appeals court panel is deciding whether to let stand the Biden administration’s approval of the massive Willow oil project in a federal petroleum reserve on Alaska’s North Slope. Circuit Court of Appeals panel Monday in San Francisco focused largely on the groups’ claims that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management did not consider a “reasonable” range …

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Judge rejects calls to halt winter construction work on Willow oil project in Alaska during appeal
1 year, 1 month ago

Judge rejects calls to halt winter construction work on Willow oil project in Alaska during appeal

Associated Press  

JUNEAU, Alaska — A federal judge in Alaska on Friday rejected requests from environmental groups to halt winter construction work for the massive Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope while the groups’ legal fight over the drilling project wages on. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason just last month upheld the Biden administration’s approval in March of the ConocoPhillips …

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Judge in Alaska upholds Biden administration’s approval of the massive Willow oil-drilling project
1 year, 2 months ago

Judge in Alaska upholds Biden administration’s approval of the massive Willow oil-drilling project

Associated Press  

JUNEAU, Alaska — A federal judge on Thursday upheld the Biden administration’s approval of the massive Willow oil-drilling project on Alaska’s remote North Slope, a decision that environmental groups swiftly vowed to fight. The administration has defended its climate record, and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland earlier this year called Willow “a very long and complicated and difficult decision to make,’’ …

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Haaland defends Willow, says US won’t end oil drilling
1 year, 8 months ago

Haaland defends Willow, says US won’t end oil drilling

Associated Press  

BOISE, Idaho — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland defended her department’s approval of the contentious Willow oil project on Friday, saying that despite President Joe Biden’s campaign promise to end new drilling on federal lands, “We’re not going to turn the faucet off and say we’re not drilling anymore.’' Speaking to the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists, Haaland …

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What's next for Alaska's Willow oil project? AP explains
1 year, 9 months ago

What's next for Alaska's Willow oil project? AP explains

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Biden administration's approval earlier …

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Willow oil project approval intensifies Alaska Natives’ rift
1 year, 9 months ago

Willow oil project approval intensifies Alaska Natives’ rift

Associated Press  

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Biden administration’s approval this week of the biggest oil drilling project in Alaska in decades promises to widen a rift among Alaska Natives, with some saying that oil money can’t counter the damages caused by climate change and others defending the project as economically vital. Two lawsuits filed almost immediately by environmentalists and one Alaska Native …

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US approves contentious oil drilling project in Alaska
1 year, 9 months ago

US approves contentious oil drilling project in Alaska

Al Jazeera  

Biden administration’s approval of Willow project in northwestern US state draws condemnation from environmental groups. The United States has approved a contentious oil-and-gas drilling project in the northwestern state of Alaska, drawing condemnation from environmentalists who say the move flies in the face of President Joe Biden’s climate pledges. The US Department of the Interior announced on Monday that it …

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Biden approves huge Willow oil-drilling project in Alaska
1 year, 9 months ago

Biden approves huge Willow oil-drilling project in Alaska

LA Times  

The Biden administration will approve the Willow oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope, two people familiar with the decision said Monday. The Biden administration said Monday that it is approving a huge oil-drilling project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope, a major environmental decision by President Biden that drew quick condemnation as flying in the face of his pledges to …

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TikTok push targets Biden on Alaska’s huge Willow oil plan
1 year, 10 months ago

TikTok push targets Biden on Alaska’s huge Willow oil plan

Associated Press  

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A social media campaign urging President Joe Biden to reject an oil development project on Alaska’s remote North Slope has rapidly gained steam on TikTok and other platforms, reflecting the unease many young Americans feel about climate change. “I think a lot of young people are feeling a little bit betrayed by that.” At the same time, …

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Alaska Native leaders, US senators back major oil project
1 year, 10 months ago

Alaska Native leaders, US senators back major oil project

Associated Press  

JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska’s Republican U.S. senators and several Alaska Native leaders on Tuesday urged the federal government to approve a major oil project on the petroleum-rich North Slope, casting the project as economically critical for Indigenous communities in the region and important for the nation’s energy security. Interior Department said separately that it had “substantial concerns” about the project …

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Biden administration recommends major Alaska oil project
1 year, 11 months ago

Biden administration recommends major Alaska oil project

Associated Press  

JUNEAU, Alaska — The Biden administration released a long-awaited study Wednesday that recommends allowing a major oil development on Alaska’s North Slope that supporters say could boost U.S. energy security but that climate activists decry as a “carbon bomb.” The move — while not final — drew immediate anger from environmentalists who saw it as a betrayal of the president’s …

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Op-Ed: Wait, what? The Biden administration wants to drill on Alaska’s North Slope?
2 years, 5 months ago

Op-Ed: Wait, what? The Biden administration wants to drill on Alaska’s North Slope?

LA Times  

The bitter end of the fossil fuel era is playing out in one of the world’s wildest remaining places: Alaska’s North Slope. On Friday, the Interior Department released a draft supplemental environmental impact statement on the Willow project, an oil development on Alaska’s North Slope that Interior says would release as much as 284 million metric tons of carbon dioxide …

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